Charles Barkley Quotes

Only the fools are certain and assured.

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

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

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

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.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

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

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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

A leader with no doubts leads badly.

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.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.