385 Quotes About Skepticism

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

Travel was a species of warfare.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

[A]s often as not, science is not under debate; it is under attack.

Questions give us no rest - Equality 7-2521, Anthem

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. iv, p. 327).