Top 76 Doubt Philosophy Quotes
#1. With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.
Fazal Inayat-Khan
#2. A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
John Le Carre
#3. Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#5. The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms of self doubt, be resolute in the winds of ridicule but the in the very end you will get a kind of self satisfaction that no one can take away from you
Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman
#6. But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
Will Durant
#7. When you're in love, life is a kiss.
When you are in doubt life is amiss.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Let the people talk, let people doubt, and let
people question you, but never allow yourself to quit walking your path. Their path is their own and the path you walk is that of your own. Sweet child of mine, be the brave child of mine.
Forrest Curran
#9. Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs, necessity finds Him out. I doubt much if we have ever learned anything solidly except we have learned it thus.
J.N. Darby
#10. Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon
#12. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
#13. No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.
Max Black
#14. Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#18. When in doubt, focus on your heart. It will show you your destiny.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Never let the clouds of doubt and fear hide the sunshine from you.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"
Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits the
essence of all that is
I. Alan Appt
#21. Doubt can seep into anyone who allows passage, anyone who will listen and deny their faith.
Amanda Strong
#22. It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...
Daniel N. Robinson
#24. Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Anthony Froude
#25. An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#26. To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
Elaine Scarry
#27. The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence
even mental.
Jacques Maritain
#28. My philosophy is 'When in doubt, you can live without.
Christin Lovell
#29. When you take action-think.
When you fail-think.
When you are in doubt-think.
When you have lost your way-think.
You are nothing but your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.
Chloe Thurlow
#31. A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages ... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Thomas Reid
#33. Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#34. When you're feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.
Whitney Houston
#35. The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.
Roger Scruton
#36. Focus your mind on love, peace and harmony.
It will vanish fear, doubt and disharmony.
Debasish Mridha
#37. In the darkness, don't doubt, blame or cry. Be the light to enlighten the whole sky.
Debasish Mridha
#38. It was all part of the Eastern system of control and appropriation, Frankie reflected philosophically. The old controlled the young, the educated the uneducated, and as for the rich, well the rich had no doubt at all that they actually owned the poor.
Ashok Ferrey
#39. One of my colleagues in Birmingham University, where I come from,' said Trevair, 'is a moral philosopher. He taught me that one of the ways to judge a course of action is to consider what company it puts one in. I doubt if that's very good philosophy, but I find it a good rule of thumb.
Jill Paton Walsh
#40. The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
James Martineau
#41. There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.
Joan Bennett Kennedy
#43. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#45. Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy?
Seneca.
#47. Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Bob Dylan
#48. 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.
Jerry Fodor
#49. The challenge of a journalist is to condense a thousand thoughts into a single sound bite. The challenge of an author is to place a simple idea on a canvas as infinite as your imagination. No doubt about it. I have the easier job.
Charles A. Cornell
#50. Never let the cloud of anxiety spread shadows of doubt on your inner peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#51. When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Love is as abundant and powerful as sunlight. It can enlighten the whole world. Clouds of doubt can hide it temporarily, but it is always there. It can heal you as sunlight, but it can also burn you.
Debasish Mridha
#53. 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?
Christian Nestell Bovee
#54. The truest philosophy is the one that raises the most doubts.
Marty Rubin
#55. And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne
#56. Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.
I. Alan Appt
#57. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.
Debasish Mridha
#58. A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
Roger Scruton
#59. It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.
David Foster Wallace
#60. Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.
Andrew J. Patrick
#61. This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
Leszek Kolakowski
#63. Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
Alfred North Whitehead
#64. There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!
Rakesh Ranjan
#65. Success come to those people who never ever doubt themselves!
Avijeet Das
#66. Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)
Rene Descartes
#68. He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
Baruch Spinoza
#69. Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
Will Durant
#70. I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#71. Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
Bertrand Russell
#72. It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we ... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.
Yann Martel
#73. I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
Voltaire
#74. I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
#75. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
Alvin Plantinga
#76. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
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