Doubt Quotes

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

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

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

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

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

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

T. T. Munge

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Saint Francis of Assisi

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.

Machiavelli

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

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, do without.

Hofni Samuel

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

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

Andr Gide

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Joseph Priestly

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.

Raymond Chandle

Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Samuel Butle

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Hosea Ballou

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

George Gordon Byron

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

Wilson Mizne

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

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Jeremy Taylo

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell