Quote by Bertrand Russell

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question…

— Bertrand Russell

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

— Bertrand Russell

“Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the…

— John Stuart Mill

“Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical…

— John Piper

“Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.”

— Junius

“Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing…

— John Milton

“Eliminate the impossible, and what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth,”[40]”

— Jonathan P. Brazee

This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.”

— John Brockman