Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

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

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

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.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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 have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

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

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

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.

It's not like I have all the answers.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

I have reservations about everything I do.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?