385 Quotes About Skepticism

Diagnosing dissociation does not make it happen, and denying it does not make it go away.

لاحظ فيورباخ إذا كنا قد أحسسنا بالإلهي على طول الخط وتبين عدم وجود إله، فما ندعوه بالإلهي أتى منا نحن في المقام الأول.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing,"Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. Who knows how these cherished beliefs became certainties with us, and whether some secret wish did not furtively beget them, clothing desire in the dress of thought?There is no philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.Gnothi seauton, said Socrates: Know thyself.

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the top of the pile."But if you doubt everything," the Tralgu said, "how can anything be justified?""Tentatively. And subject to later examination. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty. I don't believe we can say that.

Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at least one truth, so that his very capacity to doubt should convince him that there is such a thing as truth.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.