Doubt Quote by Bertrand Russell

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

— Will Durant

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many…

— Bertrand Russell

In my opinion I think there's a difference between skepticism and cynicism; I tend to avoid cynicism because I feel it can err sometimes…

— Tyler Henry

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

— Paul Ricoeur

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

— Harold Lasswell

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

— Bertrand Russell

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

— Michel de Montaigne

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

— Vera Farmiga

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Is it true that dogmatism "means assertiveness without knowledge?" How do you know that the assertiveness is without knowledge? When the eleven disciples asserted…

— Joseph Fielding Smith