Doubt Quotes

The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time...

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element i...

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few y...

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from ou...

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their cour...

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essentia...

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to re...

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom...

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism a...

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightnes...

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is t...

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even pare...

When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is ...

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the...

What are men? Children who doubt.

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he ...

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is...

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; dou...

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubtin...

Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded w...

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as hi...

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even gr...

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...

Guilt is never to be doubted.

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to c...

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...

This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential — and “preventive” — refuta...

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...

She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she...

Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, ...

Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, b...

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in...

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will...

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civi...

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my ...

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean...

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, f...

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power o...

The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all thing...

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the h...

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...

...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into ...

And those of us who trust ourselves the least,Who doubt and question most, these, it may be,Will mak...

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt...

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. On...

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i...

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no dou...

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt a...

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; ...

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copie...

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.