Accepted Quote by Paul Kurtz

“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.”

— Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role…

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

— Steven Novella

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

— Michel de Montaigne

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe…

— George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

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 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 certainly a beneficial tool, to the extent that it yields a dialectic of ideas that can progress toward empirical resolution of difficult…

— Jaak Panksepp

“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which…

— Immanuel Kant

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Thomas Carlyle