Skeptics Quotes

I have no desire to discredit spiritualism; I have no fight with the Spiritists; but I do believe it is my duty to place before the public the results of my long investigation of Spiritualism.

James (William James) confronted all dogma with skepticism and made skepticism itself a dogma.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists.

Skepticism. The first step toward truth.

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; […]

To believe in luck – is skepticism.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Skepticism is slow suicide.