Doubt Quotes

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
Johann wolfgang von goethe - we know accurately only when we know little; with...
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
When in doubt, duck.
Malcolm Forbes
To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.
King Stanislas I of Poland
Bergen evans - freedom of speech and freedom of action are...
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
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Richard Baxte
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prathe
Alfred lord tennyson - there lives more faith in honest doubt, believe...
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
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
George S. Patton
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M Scott Peck
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.
Immanuel Kant
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
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, do without.
Hofni Samuel
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
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Kerrigan
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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)
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Peter Ustinov
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
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
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.
Martin Terman
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christine Bovee
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