Ability Quote by James Gleick

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

— Giacomo Leopardi

“Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing" Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits the essence of all that is”

— I. Alan Appt

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

“In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know”

— Anonymous

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of…

— Thornton T. Munger

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge

— Abraham Joshua

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge and he who encourages them, who those not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

— James Allen

“The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.”

— Jon Krakauer