Doubt proverbs
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- Gautama Buddha99◆ I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.
- Walt Whitman99◆ Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
- George Carlin99◆ Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
- Kurt Vonnegut99◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche99◆ We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
- Douglas Adams99◆ Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
- Voltaire99◆ If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- René Descartes99◆ Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
- Paul Tillich99◆ If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
- Yann Martel99◆ Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
- Gustave Flaubert99◆ And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrased, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers--perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.
- Rainer Maria Rilke99◆ Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
- Richard P. Feynman99◆ In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
- Marsilio Ficino99◆ I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
- Clarence Darrow99
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