Rationalising Doubt

Rationalising Doubt

Doubt is the beginning, not the end.
– George Iles
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Man’s most valuable trait is a judicial sense of what not to believe.
– Euripides
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.
– Miguel de Unamumo

When you see the depth of energy that people can put into such evil, then of course, yes, there is a flicker of doubt. It would be inhuman, I think, not to react that way.”

-Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
Commenting on his faith in God
after the 2004 tragedy at Beslan’s School

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