Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting. — John Ortberg 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
[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
Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish… — Ron Conway 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
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
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever… — Elizabeth Kolbert 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
“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and… — Christopher Hitchens 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
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for… — Michael Shermer 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 do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends… — Lee Strobel 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
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
... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image