Quotation Explorer - 'Doubt'

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christine Bovee
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. - John Ruskin
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. - Joseph Priestley
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever that is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is. - Enza Vita
Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.I am broken and bored,Is there any rewardReassure me, Good Lord,And inform me about it.Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it. - Hilarie Belloc
Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them. - Marilyn French
Whomever you truly are... honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt. - Jaeda DeWalt
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. - René Descartes
Doubt manifests itself in indecision. - Richie Norton
Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand. - Taylor Patton
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. - Martin Cosgrove
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi
...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. - David Whyte
Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man.""Is that what loving your man is?""Has a lot to do with it."Jean Louise said, "You mean losing your own identity, don't you?""In a way, yes," said Henry. "Then I doubt if I shall ever marry. - Harper Lee
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route. - Malcolm Forbes
There are two ways to slide easily though life: To believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. - Napoleon Hill
Goodbye worry, fear, doubt, and guilt. Hello grace. - Tamara L. Chilver
A society is driven by social fear always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
When James Wan is out there the horror is real, no doubt about that Check out for own proof if you have guts Sinister 1,2... Insidious 1,2... - Deyth Banger
When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love. - Debasish Mridha
I’d rather trust and regret than doubt and regret. - Kirito - Reki Kawahara
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it. - Brian Moran
I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men. - I.J. Parker
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. - Calvin Coolidge
Fear and doubt do not kill courage and faith; they birth them. You cannot have courage without fear. You cannot have faith without doubt. - Steve Maraboli
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together. - Søren Kierkegaard
A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure. - Lionel Suggs
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.' - Scott Adams
It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt. - Auliq Ice
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. - Gautama Buddha
the world feel empty without a best friend .true friends no doubt are rare in this world - nimra
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt. - Toba Beta
Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction. - Molly Friedenfeld
when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made. - T.M. McNally
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. - William Ernest Hocking
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods... - Socrates
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. - Morris L. West
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. - George S. Patton
Six pillar advice for young people:Know thy Creator.Know thy sacred soul.Educate thyself.Don’t doubt your dreams.Pursue your passion.Never lose hope. - Laillah Gifty Akita
To believe in the possibilities of self is to unleash the power of the spirit quieted by doubt ~ - Bluenscottish
Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt. - G.A. Henty
what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions? - Usman Iqbal
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope. - Cassandra Clare
When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling - Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt. - Thomas Carlyle
doubters only doubt what they doubt - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Often wrong, never in doubt. - Ivy Baker Priest
Fear is a product of doubt. it is a negative energy. Fear is an opposite of faith. Law is not necessary for people who have freedom. Law is the control switch that produces fear. That Fear produces lawful citizens is a delusion, it only creates fearful citizens . - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt. - H.A. Dorfman
There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt. - Ellen J. Barrier
In life; don't go chasing after everything, or if you go for something, never doubt and miss the step, Or else you will miss a trick of the tail and lose everything. - Auliq Ice
By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are. - Stephen Richards
Believe in yourself even when others doubt your capabilities. - Lailah Gifty Akita
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - Max Beerbohm
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. - Mark Twain
If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don’t hurt anyone in anyway or form. - Debasish Mridha
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are. - Ace Antonio Hall
When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.
The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them. - M. Kirin
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely... - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt everything except your conscience, even then test the waters, for much brainwashing has gone out into the world - Dara Reidyr
Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong. - Sky Diamond
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -, philosopher and writer (1864-1936) - Miguel de Unamuno
Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- - RVM
Never doubt that a single moment can change everything. - Marty Rubin
If you want to be excellent at something, it involves moving away from your comfort zone, overcoming doubt, setbacks and failure. Don't give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. Success and winning will be yours. - Mark F. LaMoure
Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe. - Geoffrey Wood
I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century’s greatest chemist. No doubt about it. - Max F. Perutz
no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful. - Anonymous
Doubt everything. Find your own light. - Gautama Buddha
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. - Groucho Marx
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. - Thomas S. Monson
Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped. - M.F. Moonzajer
If in doubt, Google. - C.S. Woolley
Amazingly, if God calls us to do something, He will help us accomplish it. We may doubt or we may simply believe. God chooses us for a particular reason. He is STRETCHING us from the inside out....to reach the lost, to provide hope, to be like Jesus on earth. - Dana Arcuri
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. - Voltaire
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
Do not ever doubt God, he knows what he is talking about - Farid F. Ibrahim
Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for. - Turcois Ominek
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. - Nora Roberts
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. - George Gordon Byron
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. - Jean Anouilh
Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place. - Mike Klepper
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. - Raymond Chandler
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It. - G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. - Francis Bacon
It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. - Anton Szandor LaVey
Never doubt! Never despair! Many will love you, if you let them. - Marty Rubin
Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself. - Peter Boghossian
you only fail soon as you start to doubt yourself - Joseph Kanamaharage
She doesn't know any other way to express her love, it always flowed like a river inside her. Don't judge her for the way she love .Like an artist she carves each relation in her life wholeheartedly. Now its an art work , you might not like her art but don't doubt her love which created that. - Archna Mohan
When we belong, we believe. When we separate, we doubt. - R. A. Delmonico
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. - William Blake
In the darkness, don't doubt, blame or cry. Be the light to enlighten the whole sky. - Debasish Mridha
Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don't even try to succeed. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When you try to cast doubt on the relationship of two true lovers.You'll find a bond that you'll never discover - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Don't let the doubt in, because when it does it ruins everything. - Karen Mosquera
our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness - Samuel Johnson
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der Post
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. - Winston S. Churchill
Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire
If you fill your mind with wonderful thoughts, there can be no room left for doubt. - Silvia Hartmann
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. - Alfred Tennyson
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. - Mark Twain
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite. - Toni Sorenson
My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surrounding Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us. - Yahtzee Croshaw
When in doubt, duck. - Malcolm Forbes
Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. - Thomas Szasz
Try it before you doubt it, because it might just be for you - Rayvon L. Browne
When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter. - Rachael Allen
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. - Wilson Mizner
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. - Suzy Kassem
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich
Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this. - Augustine of Hippo
Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time? - Franz Kafka
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often and in my inmost self perhaps all the time I doubt whether I am a human being. - Franz Kafka
We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit? - David Sedaris
No doubt the foregoing litany of obstacles in the path of success stands out more sharply in retrospect than it did at the time. Hindsight can distort; prophets become prophets only in time. - Fredrik Logevall
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments. - Lisa Kudrow
To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else. - André Gide
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. - Ambrose Bierce
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead. - James Potter
You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don't doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way. - Hermann Hesse
How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have. - Stephen Richards
Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. - C.Toni Graham
When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength. - Hayley DiMarco
What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it. - JoCecelia Shinn
The deep roots never doubt spring will come. - Marty Rubin
When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence. - Paulo Coelho
When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed - Laurell K. Hamilton
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Saint Francis of Assisi
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B. - Joyce Rachelle
I'm a little panicky when I realize he's not here. It's a lot easier to push down my doubt when he's with me. When I can see those eyes the color of melted chocolate and hear his deep voice that falls over me like a warm blanket on a cold night. - Rick Yancey
I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I am the strength in weakness. I am the confidence in the midst of doubt. I am Her! - Kierra C.T. Banks
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski
Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth. - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. - Charles Bukowski
Focus your mind on love, peace and harmony.It will vanish fear, doubt and disharmony. - Debasish Mridha
I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be? - Ralph Ellison
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. - Dorothy Parker
I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever pen it in this lifetime, for then the seeking ends; miserable is the day the adventure ends. - D.A. Botta
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself. - Miguel de Unamuno
More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt. - Lawrence M. Krauss
Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936) - Francis William Aston
Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. - Lauren DeStefano
I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice. - M.F. Moonzajer
Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to concieve them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper. - Rene Descartes
Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind. - Elvis Costello
The rewards of faith are beyond doubt. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. - Rene Descartes
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. - Julia Ward Howe
Anything built on doubt is rocky.Anything built on fear is shaky.Anything built on hate is unsteady.Anything built on wisdom is trustworthy.Anything built on faith is sturdy.Anything built on love is mighty. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt. - Deepak Chopra
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -, author (1895-1983) - Jose Bergamin
Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience. No doubt about it. The family is the greatest and most important enterprise on earth. Lead yours with passion and joy! - Richie Norton
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. - Bertrand Russell
He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voice, a wide smile, with fear and doubt freezing over his core. The truth was the best route, but the truth could always be costly... another truth. A sad truth. - Hubert Martin
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anaïs Nin
An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better. - Johnny Rich
Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments. - G.K. Chesterton
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence Darrow
Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death. - Miguel de Unamuno
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way. - Hosea Ballou
Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion. - Debasish Mridha
Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray. - Jim George
Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction. - Kirk J. Schneider
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Having confidence in yourself breaks the chain of doubt - Marcelle Hinkson
Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will. - Stephen Richards
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. - John Updike
The search for truth begins with the doubt of all 'truths' in which one has previously believed.
Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt. - Unarine Ramaru
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply. - Os Guinness
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If youwant to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegia
I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes. - Gaiman, Neil
It is better to believe than to doubt. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. - Ed Meese
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? - William Makepeace Thackeray
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. - Charles Darwin
Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about. - Jeffrey Lewis
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. - Harold Urey
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it. - Jerome Groopman
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. - Albert Guerard
Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough. - Vironika Tugaleva
I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear,Sin and Doubt - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. - Roger A. Caras
i see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels. - Nikki Rowe
I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. - Mahatma Gandhi
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden
Pregnancy is a very tough experience for a female, have no doubt. But, it's not a walk in the park for a man either. Understanding on both sides is key - James Perrin
Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every now and then when I feel the doubt, I look inside myself and I see the way. The whole world full of possibilities. So you could be you and I could be me. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. - Oprah Winfrey
Doubt never brings anything better; Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
sometimes we doubt the truth in the face of this earth, but not to worry. the important thing is to follow your conscience to walk in the truth - Handi Priyono
Don't let fear, or doubt creep in. Instead, let hope creep in. Start believing in yourself. Open your mind and heart to the possibilities. - Akiroq Brost
It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,and still they came in watery flocks,because it was spring and the birds had to come,No doubt that soldier's had to be marching,and that the drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling - Wallace Stevens
I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it. - Deyth Banger
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. - William James
It's not often that I get the benefit of the doubt.
When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. - Raymond Chandler
Dear Homeschool Mom, You've got this! God called you to it, and He will see you through it. Inhale Grace. Exhale Doubt. - Tamara L. Chilver
Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith. - Ron Brackin
Love is as abundant and powerful as sunlight. It can enlighten the whole world. Clouds of doubt can hide it temporarily, but it is always there. It can heal you as sunlight, but it can also burn you. - Debasish Mridha
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Bertrand Russell
Don't let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you'll eventually break free, thus finding the 'impossible' was actually possible all along. - J.E.B. Spredemann
To philosophize is to doubt. - Michel de Montaigne
If you want to be excellent at something, you must move away from your comfort zone, overcome doubt, setbacks and failure. Never give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. One day, success will be yours. - Mark F. LaMoure
A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt. - Matt Chandler
Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together. - Michel de Montaigne
Don’t doubt your dreams. - Laillah Gifty Akita
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has! - Margaret Mead
To stand on thebrink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeling of impatience, doubt, orunworthiness hindering the receiving of it—that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best. - Ask and It is Given
There isn’t any doubt I’m stuck in stress and depression. - Deyth Banger
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer
I don't believe in Doubt. - Marty Rubin
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. - Reinhold Niebuhr
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt. - Alan Cohen
Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. - Oscar Wilde
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief. - Sandra Chami Kassis
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. - Cory Doctorow
My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my conscious's matrix is without any doubt has adapted to other's consciousness and that is how we all adapt to survival. - Ahmed Aziz Ahmed
What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know: 1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. 2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. - Peter Ustinov
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. - Richard Feynman
Claim your success. The moment you doubt is the moment you undermine it. - E.B. Davis
When you're in love, life is a kiss.When you are in doubt life is amiss. - Debasish Mridha
Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in time.
Doubt births negative confessions; it hinders God’s promises and it spurs thedevil into action! Don’t give the devil any propelling force against your life!God is able in all situations; only when you believe! - Ayobola Olusegun-Emmanuel
Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle. - Emily Thorne
A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title) - G.R. Matthews
There is hero in everyone.Never doubt who you are. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities. - K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna"
Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive. - Criss Jami
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward. - Zig Ziglar
Distrust won’t do good to you.But still if you ever do.Doubt you husband,Maybe doubt your wife.But never suspect,your kid’s father,or the mother of your child. - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
The worst enemies of success are fear and doubt. - Debasish Mridha
when you are doubt with someone on how they feel don't pretend that you know what they were thinking, never assume yourself as you know how they feel when you really not at their shoes at all. - Jinnul Jr.
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. - Arthur Honegger
Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt. - Matshona Dhliwayo
What’s the best home-based business opportunity in the world today? Without a doubt, it’s network marketing. Like it or hate it, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry in history. There’s just one problem it can be hard if you’re not used to it! - Kevin J. Donaldson
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. - Paul Tillich
I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true!" --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - rebecca hitchcock
In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81) - David N. Elkins
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt - Mark Twain
I have no doubt that ignorance is the biggest obstacle facing the church of the lord Jesus Christ in this age - Sunday Adelaja
Don't let doubt steal your dreams. - Lynne St. James
Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting. - Deyth Banger
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. - Henry James
Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado - Matt Chandler
There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there. - M.F. Moonzajer
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. - Edward de Bono
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. - Richard Feynman
When in doubt, use brute force
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself. - Dalai Lama XIV
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge
Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way. - Israelmore Ayivor
The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt - Sylvia Plath
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education. - Wilson Mizner
When in doubt, look intelligent. - Garrison Keillor
So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision. - Toni Sorenson
When in doubt, C-4. - Adam Savage
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
It's better to have loved and lost than never love at all - I doubt that sorry statement every time I fall. - Phar West Nagle
There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Who, however, is in doubt ‘and’ awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn’t believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mŷthos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.’ (’s Metaphysics: Book I. Part II) - Aristotle
When in doubt, do without. - Hofni Samuel
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. - Katherine Howe
You can't doubt so much, Psyche - Francesca Lia Block
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. - Eric Hoffer
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. - Herman Wouk
Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat. - Kellie Elmore
Now, don't get me wrong, I think border security is important. And I have no doubt that the Republican plan for turning our southern border into The Hunger Games will put a stop to the #1 threat facing America today illegal cleaning ladies. - Bill Maher
The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.""So what, it's stupid to even try?""No. It's unwise to hope."- Something Like Stardust - Genevieve Ross
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. - Robert Browning
Then, I guess, I can only hope that you will change your mind. But I will love you, without a doubt, for all eternity. - A.M. Hudson
I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. - Marty Rubin
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. - Doug Larson
Never doubt in the DARK what God told you in the LIGHT. - V. Raymond Edman
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world and being content with having no evidence.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. - Saint Francis of Assisi
It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo
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. - Rosalynn Carter
When in doubt, focus on your heart. It will show you your destiny. - Debasish Mridha
While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued. - Richard Baxter
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself. - Daniel Schorr
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flee from those who seek to make you doubt yourself! - Joko Ono
People will continue to doubt you until they witness first hand the results of what you have mastered. - Paul Bamikole
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] - Robert Hughes
A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself gone already in his visions. - Israelmore Ayivor
Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed. - Shannon L. Alder
It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us. Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self-motivated! - Stephanie Lahart
You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world. - Holly Ordway
Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word. - J. Loren Norris
People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world. - Nana Awere Damoah
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - André Gide
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? - Charles Darwin
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski
An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it. - Arlene J. Chai
When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him. - Charles R. Swindoll
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everyone has a worldview, and everyone is positive theirs is the correct one. I can tell you without a doubt your wrong. - Wesley Gray
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics. - Francis Bacon
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. - George Orwell
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