Top 25 Skeptic Quotes

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

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

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.

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 don’t really believe in the paranormal; I’m a skeptic through and through.

Everyone – pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist – has to answer these questions: ‘Where did I come from? What is life’s meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?’ Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Obama’s capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Mattis also appears to be a skeptic of the Obama-era policy of putting women into combat roles.

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president’s.

I’m a natural born skeptic.

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

Scientists are skeptics. It’s unfortunate that the word ‘skeptic’ has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it’s just thoughtful inquiry.

My mother’s openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I’m open to everything. And I don’t have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences – and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

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.

When you’re bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first phase, you have to be willing to ask the hardest questions – is this idea worth pursuing? But once you are convinced, you flip a switch. It’s about getting it done.

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

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

I’m kind of a skeptic at heart.

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

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

I am incredibly cynical, and I don’t think that’s something people would guess. People think I’m all positive, but I’m a skeptic.

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

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic… and this is a medium telling you this! Because if someone is a medium and they are legit, they’re not going to be shocked by skepticism, they’re not going to be taken aback or intimidated by skepticism.

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.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.