Beginning Quote by Gillian Anderson

“He spent a very uncomfortable few moments trying to remember his prepared position for explaining to God that he had nonetheless been right not…

— Christopher Brookmyre

I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of animals, and…

— David E. Cooper

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Shouldn’t children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn’t we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand…

— Richard Dawkins

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

“Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve…

— Czeslaw Milosz

It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.

— Tyler Henry

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then,…

— Arthur Helps

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more…

— Anonymous

“sceptical, to be honest, but Pearson said he might be of some use and managed to persuade the SIO at the time.”

— Damien Boyd

“If you’re only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crochety misanthrope convinced that…

— Carl Sagan

“But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire of arguments…

— Aleister Crowley