“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Underneath the surface of the skeptic is fear — fear of being disappointed.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It is far harder to make a believer into a skeptic than to make a skeptic into a believer.” — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of being a skeptic, I’m irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The governor of Texas was a real climate change, well, "skeptic" would be a nice way of phrasing it. Still, though, Texas… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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