Quotes about doubt

"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."

Akhenaton on doubt
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"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."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"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."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

Bacon, Francis on doubt   

"Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."

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"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow."

Bailey, Philip James on doubt   

"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."

Ballou, Hosea on doubt
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"I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything."

Barzan, Gerald on doubt
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"Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts."

Bhagavad Gita on doubt
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"If the Sun and Moon should doubt, They'd immediately Go out"

Blake, William on doubt   

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on doubt
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"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."

Buddha on doubt
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"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."

Bunyan, John on doubt   

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

Burke, Edmund on doubt
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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

Cervantes, Miguel De on doubt   

"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

Colton, Charles Caleb on doubt   

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

Darrow, Clarence on doubt
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"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."

Descartes, Rene on doubt
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on doubt
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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

Donne, John on doubt
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"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."

Dumas, Alexandre on doubt
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"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."

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"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."

Eliot, George on doubt
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"Doubt is the father of invention."

Galilei, Galileo on doubt
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

Gibran, Kahlil on doubt
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"He that knows nothing doubts nothing."

Herbert, George on doubt   

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doubt
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"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."

Iles, George on doubt
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"Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit. [After winning the America's Cup]"

Koch, Bill on doubt   

"An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt."

Malone, Walter on doubt   

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

Massinger, Philip on doubt   

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

Mencken, H. L. on doubt   

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

Mizner, Wilson on doubt
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"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."

Pike, Albert on doubt   

"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on doubt
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