Vera Farmiga Quotes

With knowledge grows doubt.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

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.

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

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

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

Who knows most, doubts most.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

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.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

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.

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.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.