Quotes of: Skeptical Keyword

[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.

Jonathan Miller

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.

John Rhys-Davies

Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.

Jerry DeWitt

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Peter Jennings

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Dan Brown

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Adam Savage

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

Buzz Aldrin

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

Robert Moses

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Vincent Van Gogh

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Yancy Butler

If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionate...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

The First Circle

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Faith and Doubt

Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue?

Bad Taste in Boys

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Jesus with Dirty Feet: A Down-To-Earth Look at Christianity for the Curious and Skeptical

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

The Root Is Man

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Life of Christ

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

The Spiritualist

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

Linda Chavez

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Richard Dawkins