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Great intellects are skeptical.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
-Thomas Paine
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
-Louis Pasteur
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
-Francesco Petrarch
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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
-Albert Pike
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
-Henri Poincare
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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
-Francis Quarles
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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
-Romain Rolland
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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
-Joseph Roux
Meditations of a Parish Priest
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
-John Ruskin
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
-George Santayana
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
-George Santayana
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
-George Santayana
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
-Nathalie Sarraute
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
-William Shakespeare
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure, Act 1 scene 4
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
-Sir Philip Sidney
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Means and Ends of Education
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
-Thomas Szasz
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The torch of doubt and chaos is what the sage steers by.
-Chuang Tzu
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Books about Doubt
