Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation…

“It seems that a whole lot of people, both Christians and non-Christians, are under the impression that you can’t be a Christian and vote…

— Rachel Held Evans

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the…

— Martin Luther

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

— Blaise Pascal

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the…

— Jacques Barzun

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

— Carl Sagan

I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually…

— James Delingpole

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious…

— Eric Ambler

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

— David Hume

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

— Clive James

I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not…

— Joseph Muscat

[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action…

— David Hume

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and…

— Evelyn Waugh

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those…

— Thomas Reid

Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can have an…

— Billy Bragg