Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

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

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

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.

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

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

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?

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

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.

You doubt because you love truth.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

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

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.