Quotes About Doubt

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

What, can the devil speak true?

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.