Belief Quote by David Hume

It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so, it would…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself…

— David Hume

“Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth…

— William James

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the…

— Sigmund Freud

“I will not engage in verbal controversy with the sceptic, because long experience has taught me that the sceptic’s ultimate skepticism is about the…

— G. K. Chesterton

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of…

— James Martineau

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.”

— Raheel Farooq

[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action…

— David Hume