Definition of Skeptic

Skeptic

One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.

A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.

A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.

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Skeptic Quotations

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw

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

I am the skeptic of skeptics.
Taylor Caldwell

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

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
Isabelle Huppert

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

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

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Skeptic Translations

skeptic in Dutch is scepticus
skeptic in French is sceptique
skeptic in German is skeptisch
skeptic in Norwegian is skeptisk

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