“The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you.… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker Copy Share Image
I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic… — Chris de Freitas Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence,"… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
