Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Quotes about Doubt -- Doubt, Doubting
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Quotes about Doubt 5
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. --George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. --Samuel Johnson
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. --Miguel de Unamuno
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. --Simone Weil
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. --Lord Byron
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revery. --Émile Durkheim
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. --Sir Walter Scott
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