« on: September 05, 2007, 05:00:52 PM »
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Ridicule is the only intelligible response to absurd propositions.
The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is...it is her shadow.
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Great doubts...deep wisdom. Small doubts... little wisdom.
Doubt is the opposite of belief.
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt, be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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.
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Doubt is the father of invention.
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
Doubt is the key to knowledge.
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Confidence is nowhere safe.
An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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"Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason."
Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, in The Seattle Daily Times, May 7, 1962
God Not FoundI looked for God in my family - I didn't find Him.
I looked for God in my culture - I didn't find Him.
I looked for God in science - I found I didn't need Him.
