Skeptic Quotes · Page 2

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

— Taylor Caldwell

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

— Bertrand Russell

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

— Morris Bender

“When faced with remarkability, she wasn't sure she trusted it.”

— Tracy Sumner

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

— Anonymous

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

— George Carlin

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

— Anonymous

“I don't think it's spiritually economic to be a skeptic about absolutely everything.”

— Beth Nugent

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

— Blaise Pascal

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the…

— Robert C. Solomon

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that…

— Anonymous

“The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only…

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that's impossible, and they just can't see that…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea…

— Karen Elson

“[D]iese skeptische Gegenwart glaubt weder an Gott noch an die Humanität, weder an Kronen noch Sittlichkeit - oder sie glaubt an alles…

— Robert Musil

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in…

— Avi Arad

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models,…

— Thomas J. Sargent

In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see…

— Steven F. Hayward

Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own…

— Isaiah Berlin

I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide…

— Harry Houdini

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has…

— Anonymous

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise.…

— Philip Yancey

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which…

— Anonymous

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling…

— Tyler Henry

“I'm a Skeptic. And I'm a Journalist. I look up things in the library—a lot! I believe in the motto of Missouri,…

— Earl Lee

The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to…

— James Q. Wilson

Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss…

— Charlotte Bronte

“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

— Anonymous

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

— Austin O'Malley

“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

— J. C. Ryle

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

— Robert Moses

[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

— Peter Kreeft

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

— Bernard Haisch

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

— Isabelle Huppert

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

— Michael Shermer