I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Underneath the surface of the skeptic is fear — fear of being disappointed.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Religion: A friend of a friend's brother's ex-girlfriend's dad's former classmate's boss's mother-in-law's co-worker's milkman's pen pal's, medicine man's babysitter's dog said...… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits. — Kelly McEvers Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When it comes to doubt, there is not one size that fits all. Some people struggle with it and some people don’t.… — Ben Young Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
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
If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and… — Linda Rottenberg 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“And it’s not very easy to refute him. He is our skeptic; a very important office.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic. — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I urge the media to start referring to climate skeptics as what they really are: climate assholes. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image