Doubt Quotes

Rene descartes - the first precept was never to accept a thing as...
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.
Martin Terman
Thomas huxley - it is an error to imagine that evolution...
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mark twain - i never could tell a lie that anybody would...
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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 and where there is sadness, joy.
Unknown
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.
Richard Baxte
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prathe
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
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
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
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
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.
Unknown
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
George S. Patton
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
Robert Browning
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
Max Ehrmann
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.
When in doubt, duck.
Malcolm Forbes
Anyone nit - Picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffle
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop
Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am.
Kayvan Sylvan
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
There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.
Dane Helmers
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
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