Skepticism Quotes · Page 5

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

— Sydney J. Harris

I don't believe in love at first sight but I do believe in judging at first sight.

— Nikhil Saluja

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.”

— Etienne de L'Amour

“It seems the more we know, the less we believe.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

— Thomas Huxley

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

— Nikki Giovanni

“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a…

— Timothy Keller

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

— Mark Twain

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed…

— Amber Heard

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

— Christopher Hitchens

The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the…

— Martin Luther

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure,…

— Louis C. K

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being…

— Christopher Hitchens

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is…

— Andre Gide

I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard…

— John Manley

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite…

— Kurt Hahn

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever -…

— Dixie Lee Ray

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both.…

— Carl Sagan

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling…

— Tyler Henry

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming…

— Stefan Molyneux

We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in…

— Pankaj Mishra

People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,…

— Bill Nye

“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was…

— Benjamin Franklin

Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces…

— Dan Barker

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept…

— Albert Schweitzer

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.…

— Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he…

— Gerhard Falk

The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is…

— Donald Barthelme

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

— Marc Webb

A reflection of good science is that a step forward opens up a lot more questions.

— Anonymous

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

— Mason Cooley

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

— Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

— Romain Rolland

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

— John Dewey

“The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.”

— Stefan Molyneux

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

— Michel de Montaigne