Skeptic Quotes

148 Skeptic quotes by 111 unique authors

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent… — Timothy Keller
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything... — Thomas Huxley
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt.… — George Carlin
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could… — Calvin Coolidge
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and… — Charlotte Bronte
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run,… — Daniel H. Pink
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders… — Bertrand Russell
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely… — Stephen Fry
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not… — Alan Watts
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all. — Sylvia Plath
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. — Robert M. Lindner
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic. — James Balog
I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to… — Jodi Kantor
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a… — John Rhys-Davies
A skeptic is someone who is frustrated beyond belief. — Chuck Palahniuk

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