Block Quote by Jeremy Paxman

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

— Freeman Dyson

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 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

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

“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

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

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than 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 is the first step toward truth.

— Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

— Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

— Oscar Wilde

“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