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Quotes About Doubt

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
~ Oscar Wilde
By doubting we come at truth.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
~ Teresa of Avila
What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
~ Richard P. Feynman
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.
~ Johan Huizinga
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.
~ Multatuli
Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.
~ Nathalia Crane
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
~ Voltaire
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
~ Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.
~ Richard Bach
If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?
~ Sigmund Freud
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
~ Saint Augustine
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.
~ L. E. J. Brouwer
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
~ Richard Whately