Julia Cameron Quotes

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless; therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

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.

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.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I love to doubt as well as know.