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

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

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

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

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

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

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.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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

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?

Seeing is not always believing.

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

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

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

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

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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.

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

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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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

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

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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.

You know, my faith is one that admits some 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.

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