Doubt Quotes

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prathe

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

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

Edwin Holt Hughes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

F. F. Bosworth

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

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

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 not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanislaus Lescynski

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

He who knows nothing doubts nothing.

Italian Prove

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

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

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

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

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.

John J. Sirica

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

Raymond Chandle

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.

Wayne Gretski

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

Hosea Ballou

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

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

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

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

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

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

Wilson Mizne

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

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Henry Louis Mencken

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Thomas H. Huxley