Doubt Quotes
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.Joseph Priestly
When in doubt, use brute force.Ken Thompson
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.William Ralph Inge
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.Sir Francis Bacon
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.Eugene H. Spafford
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.Eugene Peterson
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.George S. Patton
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.Heywood
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.Arthur Honegge
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
When in doubt, duck.Malcolm Forbes
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.Oscar Wilde
When in doubt, do without.Hofni Samuel
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.William Wirt
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.Immanuel Kant
This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.I Ching
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.Francis Bacon
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
