Skeptic Quotes · Page 5

In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely…

— Wernher von Braun

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

— Anonymous

If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I…

— Jason Chaffetz

All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with…

— Roy Spencer

There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can…

— Marc Andreessen

Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They…

— Seth Godin

I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I…

— Lennart Bengtsson

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

— Isaiah Berlin

“Don’t believe the skeptics. Rather, be skeptical of their skepticism.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of…

— William Graham Sumner

Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change....…

— Rob Brezsny

On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental…

— Robert Bryce

I prefer open minds over like minds. Its part of that whole think for yourself thingy that I try to subscribe to.

— Rock Cowles

[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral…

— Dale Jamieson

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do…

— Rodrigo Cortes

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

— Peter Kreeft

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against…

— Thucydides

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

— George Santayana

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God…

— Billy Graham

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure…

— Bertrand Russell

Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring…

— Paul Krugman