Edward Coke Quotes

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.

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.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

I love to doubt as well as know.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

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 even mine.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.

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.

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

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

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

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

Only the fools are certain and assured.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.

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.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

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

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.