Skeptics Quotes

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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
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've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same… — Terence McKenna
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are… — David Suzuki
And then you see right away it may well happen that you enter a decade or maybe even two, when the temperature cools relative to… — Mojib Latif
So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but… — Ryan Buell
Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing funding, much of… — Peter Friedman
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very… — Charles Lindbergh
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science… — Jacques Vallee
So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite… — Greg Koukl
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not… — Bernard Haisch
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
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 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

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