Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow 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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about the skeptic, trust yourself, you can do great things.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value. — Robert McKee 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
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul 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
“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
“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic… — J.M. Richards 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
... 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
For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that… — Scott Pruitt 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 got into this business, I was the worst skeptic of all time. I didn't grow up wanting to do it.… — Billy Gunn Copy Share Image
I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced… — Sean Penn 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
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
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