Doubt Quotes

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.

Andr Gide

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi

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

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Unknown

If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.

Edwin Holt Hughes

By doubting we come at truth.

Cicero

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Legal Prove

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

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

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge