Quotes about Skepticism
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
— GK Chesterton
Discerning someone's character, true values, and suitability for marriage is hard work. It takes time, counsel, and a healthy dose of objective self-doubt and skepticism. Identifying someone as "God's chosen" or Plato's "soul mate" is comparatively easy. You "feel" it in your gut. It seems right. You can't imagine anyone else. You must have found the one!
— Gary Thomas
You don't need miracles in the west. You have insurance.
— Brother Yun
in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness
— Herman Melville
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
— Herman Melville
The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.
— Herman Melville
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.
— Josh McDowell
There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
— John Wooden
When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.
— Jeremy Camp
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
— Joseph Heller
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
— JD Greear