[PW] Voltaire Quote

[Daphne Drewello]

Fred Shapiro wrote

>
> Is anyone able to provide any information about the following quotation,
> said to be by Voltaire:
>
> "Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one."

A possible starting point.....

According to the following site

http://www.esgs.org/fr/all.htm

Le doute est un état mental désagréable, mais la certitude est ridicule."
- Voltaire, Lettre à Fréderic le Grand, 1767.


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND