Doubt Quote by John Stuart Mill

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same…

— John Stuart Mill

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to…

— John Stuart Mill

“Those who would suppress an opinion (it is assumed that they are honest) deny its truth, but they are not infallible. They may be…

— John Bagnell Bury

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume…

— John Stuart Mill

“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted,…

— John Stuart Mill

“You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“It is common for conversations to consist of people sharing their conclusions rather than exploring the reasoning that led to those conclusions. As a…

— Ray Dalio

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

— Wes Fesler

“one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only…

— Virginia Woolf

“We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on its absolute…

— Lev Shestov

“Nevertheless the opinion of experts, when it is unanimous, must be accepted by non-experts as more likely to be right than the opposite opinion.…

— Bertrand Russell

“Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein