Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Quotes about Doubt -- Doubt, Doubting
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Quotes about Doubt
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure- that is all that agnosticism means. --Clarence Darrow
Lord I disbelieve- help thou my unbelief. --E. M. Forster
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. . . . For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns . . . his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it . . . that he might learn by experiment what argument taught. --Roger Bacon
We work in the dark- we do what we can- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. --Henry James
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. --Francis Bacon
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. --G. C. Lichtenberg
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