Doubt Quotes

Wilson mizne - i respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an...
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Richard Baxte
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
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.
Stanislaus lescynski - to believe with certainty we must begin with...
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
Thomas carlyle - skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone,...
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
La Rochefoucauld
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christine Bovee
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizne
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.
Arthur Schopenhaue
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.
Unknown
When in doubt, punt.
John Heisman
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am.
Kayvan Sylvan
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
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
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
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
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
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
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Everett D. Martin
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegge
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
Charles H. Mayo