English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Voltaire Quotes

Voltaire quote: "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a..."

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

John Steinbeck quote: "I guess there are never enough books."
I guess there are never enough books. John Steinbeck
I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work. Kevin Conroy
Albert Einstein quote: "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must..."
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves. This is precisely why you're stuck. Starting without seeing the end is difficult, so we often wait until we see the end, scanning relentlessly for the right way, the best way and the perfect way. The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now. Step by step, page by page, interaction by interaction. As you start moving, you can't help but improve, can't help but incrementally find yourself getting... Seth Godin
A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is finite and unextended wood, a fact determined by its own denial. Thomas Wolfe
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. Anatole France
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard
I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well. Leo Kottke
It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes. Augusten Burroughs
But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese. Alex Chiu
John Irving quote: "It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to..."
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change. John Irving
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes..."
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. J. R. R. Tolkien
Harry Dean Stanton quote: "I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't. Harry Dean Stanton
Wolcott Gibbs quote: "Where it all will end, knows God."
Where it all will end, knows God. Wolcott Gibbs
..though Miss Rebecca Sharp has twice had occasion to thank Heaven, it has been, in the first place, for ridding her of some person whom she hated, and secondly, for enabling her to bring her enemies to some sort of perplexity or confusion; neither of which are very amiable motives for religious gratitude, William Makepeace Thackeray