“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Source: The Advancement Of Learning
Context: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
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Jonathan Sacks (1948) British rabbi
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“Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
“To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 61.
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“It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does.”
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) French writer
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)