Sceptic Quotes

29 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics. — Peter Sissons
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
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
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
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
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
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
A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't — Clive James
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
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. — Pierre Bayle
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
I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges. — Dan Aykroyd
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
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: