Doubt Quotes
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.Christine Bovee
When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.Raymond Chandle
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
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 Huxley
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.Claude M. Bristol
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.Herbert Samuel
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
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
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.
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
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)
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.Yann Martel, Life of Pi
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.Oscar Wilde
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
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
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.Thomas Carlyle
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.F. F. Bosworth
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
When in doubt, use brute force.Ken Thompson
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.William Ralph Inge
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
