Skeptic Quotes · Page 6

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,…

— Timothy Keller

It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not…

— James Stewart

I think outside the box because I was never in it.

— Rock Cowles

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

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

— Anonymous

Scientists are always skeptics.

— Anonymous

“The first skeptic was probably caused by diarrhea.”

— Michael Palmero

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

— Ivar Giaever

A skeptic is someone who is frustrated beyond belief.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

— George Carlin

“see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.”

— Pete Hamill

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

— Calvin Coolidge

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

— Norman Finkelstein

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

— Richard Hofstadter

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

— Thomas Huxley

“It is far harder to make a believer into a skeptic than to make a skeptic into a believer.”

— Mike Klepper

“Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Do not worry about the skeptic, trust yourself, you can do great things if you attempt them.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the…

— William Henry Houghton

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and…

— Jodi Kantor

The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.

— Kelly McEvers

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which…

— Martin Luther

In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and…

— Linda Rottenberg

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm…

— Dana Stabenow

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine…

— Calvin Coolidge

Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion…

— Alan Dershowitz

“I’m tired of being a skeptic, I’m irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I…

— Natalie Angier

I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather…

— Ross Garnaut

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and…

— Criss Jami

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because…

— Charles Lindbergh

Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all…

— Stephen Fry

“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on…

— Thomas Jefferson

Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of…

— Anonymous

When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of…

— Taner Edis