Doubt Quotes

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

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

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Robert Browning

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Heywood

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Prove

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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

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

H. L. Mencken

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton

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

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

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

Legal Prove

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Jeremy Taylo

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Anonymous

When in doubt, use brute force.

Ken Thompson

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

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Charles H. Mayo

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

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

Raymond Chandle

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napolean Hill

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

When in doubt, duck.

Malcolm Forbes

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

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

George S. Patton

I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegge

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

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