Doubt Quotes

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.

Joseph Roux

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mark Twain

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Voltaire

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.

Unknown

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.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi

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

William Shakespeare

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 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

When in doubt, do without.

Hofni Samuel

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

William James

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

Unknown

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

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

George Gordon Byron

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

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

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

To philosophize is to doubt.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Reinhold Niebuh

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

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