Doubt Quotes

By doubting we come at truth.

Cicero

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

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

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Zigla

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.

Anonymous

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

When in doubt, use brute force.

Ken Thompson

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.

Richard Baxte

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

Raymond Chandle

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

Willmott

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

Hosea Ballou

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi

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

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

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

Claude M. Bristol

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

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

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

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

H. L. Mencken

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

Andr Gide

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

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

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)

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

Mark Twain

He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.

I Ching

To philosophize is to doubt.

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.

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