Doubt Quotes
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
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
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
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
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
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
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 H. Huxley
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.Sir Francis Bacon
When in doubt, punt.John Heisman
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
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
He who knows nothing doubts nothing.Italian Prove
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.Anonymous
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.C. S. Lewis
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.Hugh Prathe
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
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
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
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
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.Hosea Ballou
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.Henri Frdric Amiel
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.Eric Hoffe
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is easier to believe than to doubt.Everett D. Martin
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
