L'honneste est stable et permanent.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and to re-establish themselves alone.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass, before they can enter into the temple of truth.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

Skepticism and faith are no less necessary. Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.