Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided…

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for…

— John Stuart Mill

The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly…

— Thomas Huxley

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever,…

— Scarlett Thomas

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

— Anonymous

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Blaise Pascal

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

— Swami Vivekananda

The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon,…

— David Hume

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people…

— John F. Kennedy

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…

— Bertrand Russell

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

— Peter Sissons

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

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

— Thomas Gray