skepticism quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Doubt is the origin of wisdom."
910
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
918
"At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions."
927
"Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last."
932
"I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am."
936
"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"
1070
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
1194