Voltaire Quotes

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.