doubt quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Seeing is not always believing.

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.

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.

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.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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

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.

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

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

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

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.

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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