“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
“In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.”
“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”
“I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.”
“The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.”
“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable”
“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”