Sceptic Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Sceptics are yet the most credulous.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sceptic Skepticism
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?'… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can have an… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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