Skeptic Quotes

The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

Scientists are always skeptics.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.