Believable Quote by Roger Scruton

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

“Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.”

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

— Christin Lovell

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

— Will Durant

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

— Jacques Maritain

“In the real world it is meaningless to doubt existence; the doubt itself demonstrates the existence of the doubter.”

— Richard Rhodes

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

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

— Francis Bacon

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

— Joan Bennett Kennedy

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

— Denis Diderot