Skeptic Quotes

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I’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 we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

There are always going to be skeptics. Prove them wrong.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that's impossible, and they just can't see that and it just makes no sense.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

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 join the battle.