Doubt Quotes

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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".

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

William Shakespeare

When in doubt, use brute force.

Ken Thompson

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Robert Browning

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

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

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

Kahlil Gibran

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne

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

George Gordon Byron