Doubt Quotes
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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 Huxley
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
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.
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
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
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; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
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
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.George S. Patton
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
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
When in doubt, punt.John Heisman
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
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 doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.Heywood
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.Joseph Roux
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
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
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
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
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.Herbert Samuel
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.Arthur Honegge
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
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
