Doubt Quotes
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.Ursula K. LeGuin
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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
When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.Raymond Chandle
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.Bertrand Russell
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.C. C. Colton
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.Max Ehrmann
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
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
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.Dane Helmers
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)
When in doubt, duck.Malcolm Forbes
Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am.Kayvan Sylvan
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.George S. Patton
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
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
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
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.Rene Descartes
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.Hugh Prathe
When in doubt, punt.John Heisman
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)
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
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.Edwin Holt Hughes
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
