Quotes About Doubt

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

With knowledge grows doubt.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Knowing isn't always believing.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.