Skepticism Quotes

"On the road from the City of Skepticism I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity" "The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination" "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt" "Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody." "If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." "When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier." "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted" "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" "Trust, but verify." "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality" "When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything." "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" "Question everything" "We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real" "I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people." "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies" "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise." "Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question"