Absurd Quote by Clive James

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is…

— Charles Eisenstein

I'm a natural sceptic.

— David Hockney

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself…

— David Hume

“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the…

— Jacques Barzun

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

— Carl Sagan

I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually…

— James Delingpole

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious…

— Eric Ambler

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

— David Hume

I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not…

— Joseph Muscat

[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action…

— David Hume

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and…

— Evelyn Waugh