Doubt Quotes
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
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
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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)
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.Napolean Hill
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
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 and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
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
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.Henry Louis Mencken
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.Heywood
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
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
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
By doubting we come at truth.Cicero
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
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.Stanislaus Lescynski
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
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.Wayne Gretski
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
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 you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.Thomas Carlyle
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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.Raymond Chandle
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
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.Henri Frdric Amiel
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
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
