"Skeptic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was chiefly stimulated by the writings of Cicero, who, though in fact an eclectic, yet, by his habit of setting forth the opinions of different schools, without coming to a decision between them, exercised the influence of a skeptic. Next in importance came Seneca, and the few works of Aristotle which had been translated into Latin. The immediate fruit of these studies was the capacity to reflect on great subjects, if not in direct opposition to the authority ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt
... long hunt," rejoined the skeptic, and with his eyes still on the tail of the disappearing Exposition ...
— The Lure of San Francisco - A Romance Amid Old Landmarks • Elizabeth Gray Potter and Mabel Thayer Gray
... moment the cynical smile of the skeptic etched itself at the corners of Farr's mouth—the flash of the nature the young man had ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... these wild, troubled days, Misjudged alike in blame and praise, Unsought and undeserved the same The skeptic's ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... better methods the new may succeed where the old have failed. Moreover, although we are ready to grant that the pathway to our goal is full of pitfalls, marked by the wreckage of old theories, yet we claim that the skeptic or the mystic can know of their existence only by traveling over the pathway himself; for in the world of the inner life nothing can be known by hearsay. If, then, he would really know that the road to theoretical ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... patients loved and clung to Red Pepper Burns; and why he, Van Horn himself, had not been able to defeat Burns as a rival. There was something about the man which spoke of power, and at this moment it seemed clear, even to the skeptic, that it was ...
— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond |
