Doubt Quotes

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

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

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

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Unknown

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, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

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

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

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

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug

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

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

Eric Hoffe

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

When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.

Raymond Chandle

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

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.

Joseph Roux

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.

Anonymous

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Prove

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Heywood

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.

Arthur Schopenhaue

He who knows nothing doubts nothing.

Italian Prove

If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Hosea Ballou

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Robert Browning