Brazilian Proverb Quotes

He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

The less you know, the more you believe.

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

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

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

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

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

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.

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

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

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

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Who knows most, doubts most.

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

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

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

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.

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

No one knows anything for sure.