Quotes About Doubt

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.