Doubt Quotes

Hugh prathe - unless i accept my faults, i will most certainly...
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
Herbert samuel - without doubt the greatest injury was done by...
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
George S. Patton
Francois marie arouet voltaire - of all religions, christianity is without a doubt...
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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
There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
George Gordon Byron
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
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
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
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Richard Baxte
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frdric Amiel
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
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
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Everett D. Martin
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizne
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
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Chinese Prove
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
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M Scott Peck
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
Robert Lynd
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
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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton