Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old skepticism quotes, skepticism sayings, and skepticism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.George Santayana
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.John Ortberg
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.Samuel E. Morison
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Skepticism is always a wise default position to start one's inquiry, but if no knowledge is being acquired, skepticism quickly morphs into stubborn ignorance.Charles Hugh Smith
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.Arthur Conan Doyle
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Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.Brian Cox
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Skepticism precludes one from believing many things, but not from loving many things.Marty Rubin
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Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.Joseph Alexander Leighton
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Skepticism enables us to distinguish fancy from fact, to test our speculations.Carl Sagan
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Skepticism is in fact the wholly self-abrogating contradiction.Michael N. Forster
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Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.Ted Nordhaus
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.Rene Descartes
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Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.Emile M. Cioran
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.George Santayana
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A universal skepticism is limited by its own criteria. If we assume it to be true, then it is false.Paul Kurtz
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.Ambrose Bierce
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The key to wisdom is this constant and frequent questioning for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.Peter Abelard
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Skepticism is a way of freeing the dogmatic mind, and that's where its value lies.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.Milan Kundera
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Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.Thomas Carlyle
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Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.Raheel Farooq
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.Denis Diderot
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Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.Stanislaw Lem
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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 the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of unperturbedness or quietude.Sextus Empiricus
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Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.George Santayana
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.John Dewey
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.Denis Diderot
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.Richard Feynman
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.James Russell Lowell
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Skepticism is a useful tool of the inquisitive mind, but it is scarcely a method of investigation.James Thurber