Doubt Quotes

When in doubt, punt.

John Heisman

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Unknown

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

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

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Alfred Korzybski

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

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Moliere

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

Thomas Carlyle

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christine Bovee

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

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

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

F. F. Bosworth

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

Reinhold Niebuh

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe