doubt Quotes

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.