Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

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

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

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

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

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.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.