Skeptic Quotes

148 Skeptic quotes by 111 unique authors

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course… — Thomas J. Sargent
... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk;… — Michael Shermer
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed. — Charles R. Swindoll
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics. — Norman Finkelstein
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who… — Thomas Schelling
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know… — Peter Kreeft
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what… — Michael Shermer
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. — Eric Ambler
Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling… — Edward Feser
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly… — Dallas Willard
Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late. — Calvin Miller
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in… — Rupert Sheldrake
Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about… — Guy P. Harrison
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire… — Warren W. Wiersbe
For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only… — J C Ryle
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to… — Ravi Zacharias
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is… — Dag Hammarskjold
Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that… — Michel de Montaigne
Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.... — Rob Brezsny
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of… — Isaiah Berlin
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. — Paul Samuelson
There are always going to be skeptics. Prove them wrong. — Robert Kiyosaki
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did… — Philip Yancey
There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at… — Marc Andreessen

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