Doubt Quotes
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
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
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.Henry Louis Mencken
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
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
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.Bertrand Russell
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.Hosea Ballou
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, you shall begin it well and serenely...Ralph Waldo Emerson
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
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
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
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.Arthur Schopenhaue
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
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
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
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
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
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
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
By doubting we come at truth.Cicero
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
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.Bertrand Russell
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.Eugene H. Spafford
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.Andr Gide
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
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
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
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.Joseph Roux
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
