Quotes about Skepticism
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
- Abraham Lincoln
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
- Peter Kreeft
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
- Alexander Hamilton
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- Euripides
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
- Will Rogers
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
- Will Rogers
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Seeing is not always believing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.
- Edmund Burke
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
- Albert Camus
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
- Albert Camus
Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
- Albert Einstein