Quotes About Skeptic

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

I can't really stand self-help stuff myself.

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil.

You see, when the skeptic asks why God did not fashion us so that we would only choose good, he or she completely misses—drastically misses—what goodness is in God's eyes. Goodness is not an effect.

If God can do anything, then He surely can even allow evil and call it good. Why does He have to explain it? Surely, if omnipotence means all-powerful without even logical or rational limitation, He can allow evil to exist and not see any incoherence in it. And if God can do anything He pleases why can't He simply be incoherent as well? That may be irrational to the skeptic, but does not limitless power also mean the power to be irrational without justification?

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.

Throw away the Tarot deck and ignore the astrology column.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

Yes, I remember the one you mean. All a lot of hooey, though.

Maybe it was that Hamlet line he referenced, where he wrote about someone who was "protesting" too much.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.