Doubt Quotes And Sayings

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“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
– WilsonMizner

“If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible.”
– John Kanary

“If people actually went by that doubt there would be very few shy people.”
– Unknown

“If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an ‘I’ without shame.”
– EMILE CIORAN

“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
– Rosalyn Carter

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
– Rene Descartes

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.”
– JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.”
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
– H.L. MENCKEN

“Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.”
– NORMAN MACDONALD

“Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.”
– CHARLES CALEB COLTON

“The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.”
– KOBO ABE

“The road to perseverance lies by doubt.”
– Francis Quarles

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
– Bertrand Russell

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
– Alfred Korzybski

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
– Author Buddha

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”
– HENRI POINCARÉ

“To doubt is not sin, but to be contented to remain in doubt when God has provided “many infallible proofs” to cure it, is.”
– Irwin H Linton

“To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”
– Philip Massinger

“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
– William Hazlitt

“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“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.”
– Author Akhenaton

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth lies within the Holy of Holies, in the temple of knowledge, but doubt is the vestibule that leads unto it. Luther began by having his doubts, as to the assumed infallibility of the Pope, and he finished by making himself the corner stone of the reformation. Copernicus, and Newton, doubted the truth of the false systems of others, before they established a true one of their own; Columbus differed in opinion with all the old world, before he discovered a new one; and Galileo’s terrestrial body was confined in a dungeon, for having asserted the motion of those bodies that were celestial. In fact, we owe almost all our knowledge, not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed; and those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves; as he that leads a crowd, must begin by separating himself some little distance from it.”
– CHARLES CALEB COLTON

“When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.”
– FRANCIS BACON

“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”
– Samuel Butler

“When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.”
– Unknown

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