Doubt Quotes

Between the conception and the creation Between the emotion and the response, Falls the Shadow.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo-American Poet.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene (b.1904) British novelist.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Sir Wlater Scott (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, poet.

The first step toward philosophy is incredulity.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) Lord Protector of England.

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.

A bitter and perplexed, “What shall I do?” is worse to man than worse necessity.

Coleridge.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise the tent that searches to the bottom of the worst.

Shakespeare.

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.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on through investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment in the truth.

Tryon Edwards.

When you doubt, abstain.

Zoroaster.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Greville.

Man was not made to question, but adore.

Young.

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

Goethe.

When a doubt is propounded, learn to distinguish, and show wherein a thing holds, and wherein it doth not hold. The not distinguishing, where things should be distinguished, and the not confounding, where things should be confounded, is the cause of all the mistakes in the world.

Selden.

The doubter’s dissatisfaction with his doubt is as great and widespread as the doubt itself.

J.Dewitt.

Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless, age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization the dim night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.

R.Turnbull.

There is no moral power in doubt, or in the denial of truth, and any human soul that tries to live on it will die, both morally and spiritually. It is negative, and there is not life in it.

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as a child on the seashore, and his discoveries in the colored shells.

Willmott.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Shakespeare.

Doubt is an incentive to search for truth, and patient inquiry leads the way to it.

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

Bailey.

In the hands of unbelief half-truths are made to do the work of whole falsehoods. The sowing of doubts us the sowing of dragon’s teeth, which ere long will sprout into armed and hostile men.

E.B. Burr.

There is no weariness like that which rises from doubting from the perpetual jogging of unfixed reason. The torment of suspense is very great; but as soon as the wavering, perplexed mind begins to determine, be the determination which way soever it may be, it will find itself at ease.

South.

Beware of doubt faith is the subtle chain that blinds us to the infinite.

E. O. Smith.