Portuguese Proverb - He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

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He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

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The less you know, the more you believe.

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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

William Winwood Reade

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

Any politician who is absolutely sure of anything he/she advocates has got to be ignorant of many of the facts and concepts about the subject. Certainty is an extreme form of hubris.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Sargent Shriver

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Gene Fowler

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Mark Shields

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

Charles Krouthammer was a fellow political columnist but where shields was a pragmatist of the left, Krouthammer was an ideologue of the right. He was also a very well-read and informed man who spoke with great authority. Sometimes he was right and sometimes, wrong, but he was rarely in doubt.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

Eric Hoffer

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Christopher Hitchens

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

E. O. Wilson

People would rather believe than know.

Will Durant

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Lionel Blue

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Earl Nightingale

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Clarence Darrow

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Paul Tillich

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

Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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