Attitude Quote by William Minto

“Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that…

— William James

“what is ‘belief’ but a willingness to suspend the negatives?”

— Margaret Atwood

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

— Margaret Atwood

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which…

— Charles Baudelaire

To philosophize is to doubt.

— Michel de Montaigne

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe…

— George Santayana

Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is…

— Paulo Coelho

“Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth…

— William James

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

— Thomas Carlyle

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

— Anonymous

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt, as the…

— Wendy Kaminer

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

— Roger Scruton