Dante Alighieri Quotes

I love to doubt as well as know.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.