Doubt Quotes
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.Wayne Gretski
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.Unknown
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.Aesop
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.Thomas Carlyle
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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 have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.H. L. Mencken
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
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
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