Frank Scott Quotes

Question everything!

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

To think critically is always to be hostile.

Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had the courage to raise questions and to be skeptical when something didn't add up.

I respect and believe skeptics.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

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

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.