Doubt Quotes

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

Willmott

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

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

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".

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

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

Claude M. Bristol

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

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Robert M. Pirsig

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C. S. Lewis

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

If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.

Edwin Holt Hughes

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

T. T. Munge

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.

Richard Baxte

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.

Legal Prove

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Moliere

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

Unknown

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland