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Skepticism Quotes by Denis Diderot
- What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
- Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
More Skepticism Quotes
- It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. — Ambrose Bierce
- Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God… — William Jennings Bryan
- Skepticism is slow suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — Wilfred Trotter
- To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes
- Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle