--- title: "6 Skeptic Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton" description: "6 Skeptic quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Plus more from Gilbert K. Chesterton and more Skeptic sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_death_the-sceptic-ultimately-undermines-democr_1532835.jpg" --- > [The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-sceptic-ultimately-undermines-democracy-1-because-he-can-see-no/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_death_the-sceptic-ultimately-undermines-democr_1532835.jpg) > [The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-average-businessman-began-to-be-agnostic-not-so-much-because-he/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0e/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_agnostic_the-average-businessman-began-to-be-agno_2215999.png) > [The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-life-of-a-thinking-man-will-probably-be-divided-into-two-parts/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_abstract_the-life-of-a-thinking-man-will-probably_2224199.jpg) > [It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-the-decisive-people-who-have-become-civilised-it-is-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e96/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_barbarians_it-is-the-decisive-people-who-have-becom_2283878.jpg) > [Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/liberty-has-produced-scepticism-and-scepticism-has-destroyed-liberty/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_destroyed_liberty-has-produced-scepticism-and-scep_2617800.png) > [At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/at-least-five-times-with-the-arian-and-the-albigensian-with-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_animal_at-least-five-times-with-the-arian-and-t_2800878.png) ## Other authors on Skeptic - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-shermer-67448.jpg) Michael Shermer 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/skeptic/michael-shermer/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/skeptic/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [Criss Jami 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/skeptic/criss-jami/) ## More by Gilbert K. Chesterton > [The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-aim-of-good-prose-words-is-to-mean-what-they-say-the-aim-of-good/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/youth-is-always-too-serious-and-just-now-it-is-too-serious-about/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/tradition-does-not-mean-a-dead-town-it-does-not-mean-that-the-living/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-shorter-to-state-the-things-forbidden-than-the-things-permitted/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/everyone-seems-to-assume-that-the-unscrupulous-parts-of-journalism/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-scotland-has-a-double-dose-of-the-poison-called-heredity-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/faith-is-always-at-a-disadvantage-it-is-a-perpetually-defeated-thing/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-building-is-akin-to-dogma-it-is-insolent-like-dogma-whether-or-no/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-triangle-of-truisms-of-father-mother-and-child-cannot-be/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/criticism-is-only-words-about-words-and-of-what-use-are-words-about/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-we-suffer-from-today-is-humility-in-the-wrong-place-the-old/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/plato-was-only-a-bernard-shaw-who-unfortunately-made-his-jokes-in/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [The word good has many meanings...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-word-good-has-many-meanings/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/music-with-dinner-is-an-insult-both-to-the-cook-and-the-violinist/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/eugenics-asserts-that-all-men-must-be-so-stupid-that-they-cannot/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/skeptic/gilbert-k-chesterton/#itemlist", "name": "6 Skeptic Quotes By Gilbert K. 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