Doubt Quote by David Hume

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

— David Hume

“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.”

— Walter Martin

“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were, they would…

— Blaise Pascal

“Reasonableness is the byproduct of a scientific mind.”

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties,…

— David Hume

“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these…

— Stephen McAndrew

“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

“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.”

— Etienne de L'Amour

“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.”

— Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

“All human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical…

— Leo Strauss

I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal…

— Charles Darwin