Doubt Quote by Francis Bacon

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

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

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

— Roger Scruton

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

“My philosophy is ‘When in doubt, you can live without.”

— Christin Lovell

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the…

— David Hume

“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”

— Michael J. Sandel

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke

To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole unleashed skeptical…

— Julian Baggini

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few…

— Jonathon Keats

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

— Henri Frederic Amiel