Doubt Quotes
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
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
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
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
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
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; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
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
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.Unknown
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
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
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
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
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.Kahlil Gibran
It is easier to believe than to doubt.Everett D. Martin
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.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
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.Joseph Priestly
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
When in doubt, punt.John Heisman
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.Eugene Peterson
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Shakespeare
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
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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
