“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
“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of… — Tom Wigley 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
“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.” — Fulton J. Sheen 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
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has… — Anonymous 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
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not… — Jason Ralph 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
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.” — Aldous Huxley 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
“Regardless of how you came to doubt, doubt itself is not the problem, but what can be problematic and even tragic is… — Ben Young Copy Share Image
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment… — Guillermo del Toro 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
“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
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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