Doubt Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

— George Eliot

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

— Anonymous

“A wise man is detached from the drama of the material world because he focuses instead on the source from which all dualities of…

— Deepak Chopra

“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.

— Confucius

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

— Frederick The Great

“Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, That he…

— Sophocles

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

— Voltaire

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans