Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I have reservations about everything I do.

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I know that I don’t know.

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.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole unleashed skeptical forces which, outside of the tightly controlled environment of a rigorous philosophical debate, led a lot of people to throw their hands up in despair and think 'what's the point?'. A lot of the public perception of philosophy is that it leaves you with no answers, and more confused than you were at the beginning.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

It is only doubt that creates.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.