Quotes About Doubt

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

You may be wrong, but you may be right.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.