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Doubt Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin…
- The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
- Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,…
- The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- 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…
- Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
- And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those…
- Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
- Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled…
- Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this…
- The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so…
More Doubt Quotes
- There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I… — Michele Bachmann
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale
- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
- Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. — John Banville
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. — Henry Adams
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore