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Full Idea
A mitigated scepticism … can make dogmatical reasoners become sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding, and inspire them with more modesty and reserve.
Gist of Idea
Mitigated scepticism draws attention to the limitations of human reason, and encourages modesty
Source
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.III.129)
Book Ref
Hume,David: 'Enquiries Conc. Human Understanding, Morals', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1975], p.161