Niels Bohr Quotes

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

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.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

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.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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

I love to doubt as well as know.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

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.

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 the origin of wisdom.

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

I question everything I do.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

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

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

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.