Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Vintage, Doubt

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Doubt, Way

• Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "The Case Against Henry Kissinger. Part Two. Crimes against humanity". www.thirdworldtraveler.com. March 2001.

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Innovation, Doubt

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Discovery, Innovation

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