Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

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.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Seeing is not always believing.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.