Doubt Quotes
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.Wayne Gretski
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.King Stanislas I of Poland
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
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.Immanuel Kant
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.Christine Bovee
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, you shall begin it well and serenely...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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
By doubting we come at truth.Cicero
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.Eric Hoffe
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.Edwin Holt Hughes
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.William Wirt
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.Henri Frdric Amiel
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.Hosea Ballou
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.Stanislaus Lescynski
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.Zig Zigla
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.Unknown
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
