scepticism quotes

   The same principles which at first lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense. See Bacon 48:95.

- George Berkeley
  Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, dialogue 3.

   In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

- David Hume
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 7.

I do not think it possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism.We must start from a broad acceptance of whatever seems to be knowledge and is not rejected for some specific reason.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  My Philosophical Development, ch.16.