Action Quote by David Hume

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

— Mason Cooley

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the…

— David Hume

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards…

— William James

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

— Geri Halliwell

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility…

— George Santayana

“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill”

— George Eliot

“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

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for…

— Homer

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

— Freeman Dyson

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be…

— William E. Gladstone

“scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,”

— Peter Unger