Top 131 Skeptic Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

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

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

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.

Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

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

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

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

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

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.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

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

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.

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

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.

I'm a natural born skeptic.

[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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

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.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

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

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

I'm a real open-minded skeptic when it comes to the ghost world. And there are places that I've traveled to where it's very scary and I end up feeling like there might be something going on there.

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

Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather than on belief. To hold the view that this is not an issue that you need to do something about, to hold the view that it's all a furphy takes belief.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

I've never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it.

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

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.