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Doubting Thomas   /dˈaʊtɪŋ tˈɑməs/   Listen
Doubting Thomas

noun
1.
The Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes.  Synonyms: Saint Thomas, St. Thomas, Thomas, Thomas the doubting Apostle.
2.
Someone who demands physical evidence in order to be convinced (especially when this demand is out of place).





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"Doubting thomas" Quotes from Famous Books



... to see a vision as much as anybody, I am out of touch with the company of the credulous. I am with Doubting Thomas. I have no capacity for believing the impossible, and have an entire distrust of dark rooms and magic. People with bees in their bonnets leave me wondering, but cold. I know a man—a most excellent man—whose life is a perfect debauch of visions and revelations. He seems to discover the philosopher's ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
... giving you my full consent to make public my testimony regarding the benefit derived from your scientific Truss. If you meet with any "Doubting Thomas," send them to me. I will be pleased to tell them what it has done ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons
... the doubting Thomas of the Greeks. He questioned everything, and declared that the great problems of the universe could not be solved. He asserted that it was the duty of man, and the part of wisdom, to entertain no positive judgment on any matter, and ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... matter of cordial good fellowship, the accommodating Imperial Grand Master evoked a devil to give evidence of his actuality to Margiotta, who, in spite of the episode of the goat, still posed as a doubting Thomas. It was managed by means of a whisky-bottle, out of which, after certain invocations and magical ceremonies, a vapour rose mysteriously, and resolved itself into a human figure, wearing a golden crown, with a brilliant star in the middle. According to the picture which accompanies this delicious ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite


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