Adam Conover Quotes

To philosophize is to doubt.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

My only weapon is the question.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

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.

If you question anything enough, you'll begin to doubt it.

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

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

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