Quotes About Skepticism

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Statism ends with an eye roll.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Philosophy is doubt.

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Trust the perception not the presentation.

Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.

It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out.

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.