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“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

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Author:Richard Carrier

“It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.”

Moments Light Faith Interest Doubt Sea Ignorance Highest Connected Quitting Revelations Inquiry Humiliating

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.”

Mind Firsts Kind Nature Realizing Accepting Steps Practice Doubt Possibility Ready Needed Habit Empty Originals Innocence Experts Emptiness Flash Inquiry Beginners

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.”

Doubt Invention Inquiry Overconfidence

Author:Hudson Maxim

“There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?”

Source: Ye Will Say I Am No Christian

“Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.”

Mean Wonder Doubt Innovation Awe Skepticism Inquiry Symmetry

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.”

Believe Doubt Discovery Innovation Fuel Engines Inquiry Skeptic

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.”

Philosophy Use Would Be Doubt Dangerous Metaphor No Doubt Inquiry Restriction Prohibition Doubt Me

Author:Max Black

“I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.”

Thinking Needs Doubt Healthy Inquiry

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.”

Inspirational Doubt Doors Window Denied Inquiry Doubted When In Doubt

Book:Essays and Reviews

Source: Essays and Reviews