Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the skeptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; […]
Skeptics Quotes
To believe in luck – is skepticism.
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, “Some gardener must tend this plot.” The other disagrees, “There is no gardener.” So, they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener… So they set up a […]
The skepticism that I advocate amounts only to this: (1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by a non-expert; and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a […]
Oliver Cromwell’s plea just before the Battle of Dunbar: “I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.” These words I would like to have written over the portals of every church, every courthouse and at every crossroads in the nation. For, it seems to me that if we are […]
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
The primary tool of science is skepticism, whose light shrivels unquestioning faith.
