Doubt Quotes
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 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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.Anonymous
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.Martin Terman
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.King Stanislas I of Poland
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.George Orwell
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.Robert Lynd
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
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
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
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.Napolean Hill
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.I Ching
In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.Legal Prove
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.Henry Louis Mencken
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.Wayne Gretski
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 we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.Edwin Holt Hughes
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
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When in doubt, punt.John Heisman
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all 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.Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947
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
When in doubt, duck.Malcolm Forbes
