Doubt Quotes

To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.

Blaise Pascal

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Bovee

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Wystan Hugh Auden

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Brooks Adams

Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

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

Andre Gide

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Rollo May

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

George Iles

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian N. Bovee

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

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

Believe while others are doubting.

William Arthur Ward

Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things.

Josh Hinds

Nobody becomes great without self-doubt. But you can't let it consume you.

John McKay

Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Alan Alda

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

St. Augustine of Hippo

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