M. Scott Peck Quotes

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

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.

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

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

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

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

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

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

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

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.