Accuracy Quote by Denis Diderot

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought…

— Muhammad Iqbal

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

— Roger Scruton

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

— James Anthony Froude

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

— Aristotle

A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief…

— David Stove

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but…

— Julian Baggini

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

— Jacques Maritain

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living…

— William James

In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to…

— Rene Descartes