A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Philosophers
David Hume
Scottish philosopher (1711-1776), master of British empiricism. His Treatise of Human Nature (1739) reduced causality to psychological habit and shook 2000 years of metaphysics. Kant said Hume broke his dogmatic slumber.
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It is no more than it is not.
-- Pyrrho
All things are ungraspable.
-- Pyrrho
Things are equally indifferent, unstable, indeterminate.
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You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.
-- Parmenides
For thinking and Being are the same.
-- Parmenides
Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.
-- Democritus