Sceptic Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of…
— Kevin Rudd
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The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove…
— Albert Einstein
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It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.
— Peter Sissons
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When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated…
— Paulo Coelho
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something…
— Michael Hanlon
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I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because…
— Scarlett Thomas
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I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words.…
— Joseph Muscat
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From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from…
— David Hume
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A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't
— Clive James
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Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
— Pierre Bayle
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
— Blaise Pascal
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I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
— Dan Aykroyd
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While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
— Bertrand Russell
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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
— David Hume
Who Wrote These Sceptic Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Sceptic Quotes as follows: