Doubt Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

By doubting we come at truth.

Cicero

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

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

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

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

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)

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".

If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.

Edwin Holt Hughes

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.

Anonymous

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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)