• The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

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• The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

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• Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

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• We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which t

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

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