Doubt Quotes

  • An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. ~ Walter Malone
  • Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • Doubt breeds doubt. ~ Franz Grillparzer
  • Doubt can only be removed by action. ~ Goethe
  • Doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Goethe
  • Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.~ Kahlil Gibran
  • Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ~ George Iles
  • Doubt is the father of invention. ~ Galileo Galilei
  • Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ~ Hosea Ballou
  • Doubt is the key to knowledge. ~ Iranian Proverb
  • Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
  • Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.~ John Christian Bovee
  • Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. ~ Author Unknown
  • Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • He that knows nothing doubts nothing. ~ George Herbert
  • If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out. ~ William Blake
  • If there is still doubt do not accuse. ~ Spanish Proverb
  • 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. ~ Rene Descartes
  • I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~ Wilson Mizner
  • I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. ~ Goethe
  • I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. ~ Gerald Barzan
  • Jealousy is nourished by doubt. ~ French Proverb
  • Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ~ Clarence Darrow
  • Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.~ Miguel De Unamuno
  • Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ~ H. L. Mencken
  • Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ~ William Shakespeare
  • Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.~ Bhagavad Gita
  • Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Goethe
  • Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare
  • Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.~ Francis Bacon
  • The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb
  • The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt. ~ Mongolian Proverb
  • The only limit of our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb
  • There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ~ John Bunyan
  • The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ~ Francis Quarles
  • To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverb
  • To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ~ Philip Massinger
  • To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • To wish to know is to wish to doubt. ~ French Proverb
  • We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. ~ Author Unknown
  • When you doubt, abstain. ~ Zoroaster
  • When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive! ~ Henry Rollins
  • Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow. ~ Philip James Bailey

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