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
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
“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
Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
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
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
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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 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 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
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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