Doubt Quotes

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.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now...

While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallo...

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the...

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my belo...

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting...

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in...

What agony he suffered as he watched that light, in whose golden atmosphere were moving, behind the ...

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

They have not forgotten the Mysteries,” she said, “they have found them too difficult. They want a G...

And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God’s goodness, ...

The key to wisdom is doubt!

When in doubt tell the truth.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: N...

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If ...

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes ...

Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're...

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for...

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...'You never can tell...' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead,' ...

Doubt is how you find God

She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at p...

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both...

I believe in saints as I believe in sanctity. I believe in miracles as I believe in God, who can sus...

It is an indication of truth's jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it ha...

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers th...

I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became stu...

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...

From the house of unbeliefto true religionis a single breath;From the world of doubtto certaintyis a...

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help b...

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take...

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not ...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin...

Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge...

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

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, i...

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt...

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly...

...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the ...

[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal...

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal...

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. I...

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple,...

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human b...

Be true, unbeliever.

Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore...

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief...

Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.