Doubt Quotes

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
George gordon byron - there is something pagan in me that i cannot...
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
Matrix, The
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
Anyone nit - Picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffle
George orwell - no doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are...
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Richard Baxte
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Chinese Prove
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Stephen crane, the red badge of courage, chapter 8 - he saw that it was an ironical thing for him to...
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napolean Hill
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.
Edwin Holt Hughes
In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.
Legal Prove
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
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.
Wayne Gretski
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.
Unknown
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
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
John Calvin
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
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
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
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
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
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.
Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
La Rochefoucauld
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.
Willmott
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M Scott Peck