Skeptic Quotes

148 quotes by 111 authors

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. — Hosea Ballou
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams
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
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it… — 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
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of… — Angel Abrea
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. — Philip Yancey
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore… — Bianca Jagger
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. — Morris Bender

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