Asking Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we…

— Paul Kurtz

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

— Steven Novella

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

— Vera Farmiga

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge

— Abraham Joshua

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

— Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

— Robert Frost

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt

— Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible…

— Stanislaw Lem

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

— D. J. Grothe