Voltaire Quotes About Doubt

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

  • 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 (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com
  • Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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

    Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”
  • 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 (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
  • Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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

    Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.171, Penguin
  • Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

  • 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.

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