Skeptic Quotes

148 Skeptic quotes by 111 unique authors

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could… — Tom Wigley
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of… — Robert C. Solomon
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse… — Karl Barth
Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot… — Rob Brezsny
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy… — Marsilio Ficino
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and… — R C Sproul
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection. — R C Sproul
Iâ€™m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that… — Russell Baker
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into… — Imre Lakatos
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
Iâ€™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 donâ€™t accept it, is like yelling… — Edward Feser

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