Doubt Quotes
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.Claude M. Bristol
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
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.Theodore Isaac Rubin
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.Richard Baxte
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.Andr Gide
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an 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
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead - Lined room with armed guards - - And even then I have my doubts.Eugene H. Spafford
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
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
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
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
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
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.Hugh Prathe
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.Hosea Ballou
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.Rene Descartes
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)
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.Thomas Carlyle
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
He who knows nothing doubts nothing.Italian Prove
Without doubt the greatest injury 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.Herbert Samuel
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.Bertrand Russell
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
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
