Quotes on Sceptic

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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

From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from education, and were, at first, invented, and afterwards encouraged ... in order to render men tractable, and subdue their natural ferocity and selfishness, which incapacitated them for society.

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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

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