Disease Quote by Henry More

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

— Sextus Empiricus

“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 is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of…

— Sextus Empiricus

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 commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual…

— James Russell Lowell

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

— George Eliot

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— George Eliot

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

— Blaise Pascal

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