Quotes of Skeptic - somelinesforyou

“ Don't be an agnostic — be something. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”

- Robert Anton Wilson

“ I'm a hopeful cynic. ”

- Tracy Chapman

“ A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ”

- Unknown

“ Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers. ”

- Isabelle Huppert

“ For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. ”

- Eric Ambler

“ 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. ”

- Miguel de Unamuno

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

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Robert Lindner

“ A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ”

- Morris Bender

“ A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. ”

- Edgar A. Shoaff

“ The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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