Doubt Quotes

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten...

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a...

He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would....

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, o...

Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we...

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of d...

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...

I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful...

It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pa...

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why h...

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - ...

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everythi...

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, underst...

And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and goo...

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created Go...

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some rem...

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the...

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

When in doubt, don't.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and...

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...

William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will t...

I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfo...

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in th...

Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderm...

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even ...

We learn from failure, not from success!

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

Nice work," he said.I grinned."You look like hell, though," he noted."I doubt hell has this much Koo...

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...