Doubt Quotes
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is easier to believe than to doubt.Everett D. Martin
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
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
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
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 in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.George S. Patton
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi
When in doubt, duck.Malcolm Forbes
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.Chinese Prove
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.George Gordon Byron
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
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.Henri Frdric Amiel
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)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
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
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
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.Edwin Holt Hughes
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.Arthur Schopenhaue
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
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
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.Bertrand Russell
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
