I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
And then you see right away it may well happen that you enter a decade or maybe even two, when the temperature… — Mojib Latif Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Presenting both sides of Christianity gives the skeptic room to breathe - and to consider the possibility that there's room in Christianity… — Stephen M. Miller Copy Share Image
Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it,… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
If you are committed to the change, you're going to have to sideline the skeptics, or at least keep them under control.… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an independent loner, that staying in a group's good graces is not always my first priority. I'm not a… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information."… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Actually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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![“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/375/thomas-jefferson-43_faith_n-regard-to-jesus-believing-himself-insp_319513.jpg)
![“[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he…” quote by Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f68/dale-jamieson-4075_appeals_this-approach-displays-the-characteristi_1272080.jpg)
