Mike Colter Quotes

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

I am a very curious person; I'll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Question everything!

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Test everything, including assumptions

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

To ask the hard question is simple.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.