Tilda Swinton Quotes

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

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

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

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.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Credulity without enquiry is a sure way to deceive oneself.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

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