Doubt Quotes
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.Thomas Carlyle
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
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
Anyone nit - Picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.Alvin Toffle
He who knows nothing doubts nothing.Italian Prove
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
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
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
To philosophize is to doubt.Michel de Montaigne
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
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
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
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
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)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.John Calvin
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.Rene Descartes
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
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug
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
Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am.Kayvan Sylvan
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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.Voltaire
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
