Doubt Quotes
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.Wayne Gretski
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas Huxley
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.Charles H. Mayo
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.Rene Descartes
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.John Calvin
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.Rene Descartes
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.Unknown
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.Heywood
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.Voltaire
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
When in doubt, use brute force.Ken Thompson
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
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.Nancy Kerrigan
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.Thomas Carlyle
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.Francis Bacon
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.Edwin Holt Hughes
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
