Quotes on Skeptic

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. _x000D_ They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

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

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

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

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

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

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

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...