Voltaire Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

• Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

  Voltaire

  Motivational, Stupidity, Doubt

• I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Cutting, Religion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.128, Penguin

• Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

  Voltaire

  Faith, Believe, Understanding

  Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156

• The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Science, Simple

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4649, e-artnow

• Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

  Voltaire

  Doubt, Ridiculous, Certainty

• Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

  Voltaire

  Inspire, Tolerance, Doubt

• We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

  Voltaire

  Doubt, Littles, Might

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.171, Penguin

• It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

  Voltaire

  Christian, Brother, Art

  Voltaire (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com

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