Quote: In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. Author: Philip James Bailey 1816-1902, British Poet
Quote: Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Author: Hosea Ballou 1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
Quote: I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. Author: Gerald Barzan
Quote: Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: 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 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. Author: John Bunyan 1628-1688, British Author
Quote: Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Author: Clarence Darrow 1857-1938, American Lawyer
Quote: 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. Author: Rene Descartes 1596-1650, French Philosopher, Scientist
Quote: Despair is the conclusion of fools. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Author: Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870, French Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian
Quote: There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Doubt is the father of invention. Author: Galileo Galilei 1564-1642, Italian Astronomer, Mathematician
Quote: Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: Doubt can only be removed by action. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: He that knows nothing doubts nothing. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. Author: George Iles
Quote: Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit. [After winning the America's Cup] Author: Bill Koch 1946-, American Skipper
Quote: An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. Author: Walter Malone 1866-1915, American Jurist
Quote: To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. Author: Philip Massinger 1583-1640, British Dramatist
Quote: Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Author: Wilson Mizner 1876-1933, American Author
Quote: Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. Author: Albert Pike 1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian
Quote: Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Doubt is the key to knowledge. Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin
Quote: The road to perseverance lies by doubt. Author: Francis Quarles 1592-1644, British Poet
Quote: In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist
Quote: There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Author: Miguel De Unamuno 1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer
Quote: Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When you doubt, abstain. Author: Zoroaster BC 628?-551?, Persian Religious Leader-Founder of Zoroastrianism
Quote: 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
Quote: Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? Author: Alexander Pope
Quote: How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Author: Alexander Pope
Quote: There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Author: Alfred Tennyson
Quote: Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Author: Andre Gide
Quote: Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is...it is her shadow. Author: Bailey
Quote: Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. Author: Benjamin Jowett
Quote: Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. Author: Bergen Evans
Quote: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Author: Charles Lamb
Quote: Doubt is the opposite of belief. Author: Christian N. Bovee
Quote: Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Author: Christian N. Bovee
Quote: Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt, be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? Author: Christian N. Bovee
Quote: Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Author: Clarence Darrow
Quote: Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Author: Colton
Quote: 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. Author: Descartes
Quote: Better trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust, and that deceiving. Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Author: Francis Anne Kemble
Quote: In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quote: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality. Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Quote: Doubt is the father of invention. Author: Galileo
Quote: He that knows nothing doubts nothing. Author: George Herbert
Quote: Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. Author: George Iles
Quote: Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. Author: H. L. Mencken
Quote: Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. Author: Hosea Ballou
Quote: Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Author: Isaac Bashevis
Quote: We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Author: Johann W. von Goethe
Quote: There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. Author: John Bunyan
Quote: It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. Author: John Burroughs
Quote: Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Author: Kahlil Gibran
Quote: If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. Author: Landor
Quote: Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. Author: Laurens Van der Post
Quote: Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Quote: To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote: To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. Author: Philip Massinger
Quote: Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. Author: Pliny the Younger
Quote: Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Author: Robert Herrick
Quote: It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. Author: Saskya Pandita
Quote: Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul! Author: Thomas Campbell
Quote: Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote: The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote: Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote: The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote: Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds. Author: Thomas Moore
Quote: Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. Author: Vauvenargues
Quote: Confidence is nowhere safe. Author: Vergil
Quote: An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. Author: Walter Malone
Quote: If the Sun and Moon should doubt, they'd immediately Go out. Author: William Blake
Quote: Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. Author: William James
Quote: Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there. Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Author: Wilson Mizner
Quote: When you doubt, abstain. Author: Zoroaster