Doubt Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

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

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

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

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

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Richard Baxte

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Heywood

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

H. L. Mencken

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

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christine Bovee

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Nancy Kerrigan

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Reinhold Niebuh

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

In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.

Richard Baxte

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Charles H. Mayo

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

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

Shakespeare

When in doubt, do without.

Hofni Samuel

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

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

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

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

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

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy