Doubt Quotes
There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.George Gordon Byron
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
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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
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
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.Mark Twain
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.Claude M. Bristol
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.Richard Baxte
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
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.Sir 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
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
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
When in doubt, use brute force.Ken Thompson
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
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.C. C. Colton
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.Richard Baxte
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.George Orwell
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.
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.Edwin Holt Hughes
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
