DOUBT QUOTES III

quotations about doubt

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn


Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida


Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.

RANSOM RIGGS

Library of Souls


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

BERTRAND RUSSELL

"The Triumph of Stupidity,", Mortals and Others


Doubt is death's plenipotentiary, its longest and wittiest shadow.

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

A Defense of Ardor


He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt
They'd immediately go out.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


To be once in doubt is once to be resolv'd.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello


To sit down in doubt is either to abdicate the highest powers of a reasonable being, or to admit an enemy that will use them as instruments of torture. Except for souls of little intellectual activity, or wholly steeped in sense, this sitting down in doubt is like sitting down in a train that is moving out of the station with the steam up and no engine-driver, or in a boat that is drifting out of harbor into a stormy sea.

ANONYMOUS

"Victims of Doubt,", Catholic World, Jan. 1867


When in doubt, take a deep breath and keep moving.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures


Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, Doubt (called "the father of inventions" by Galileo), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

BENJAMIN JOWETT

Scripture and Truth


Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is -- 'tis her shadow.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus


Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

G.C. LICHTENBERG

"Notebook F,", Aphorisms


Christ never failed to distinguish between doubt and unbelief. Doubt is can't believe; unbelief is won't believe. Doubt is honesty; unbelief is obstinacy. Doubt is looking for light; unbelief is content with darkness.

HENRY DRUMMOND

How to Learn How


Sometimes we think doubt is not good, but doubt is important. It's not so important that we should become crazy from it, but if you are questioning, that's fine. We need to question. Even though you don't get answers to your questions, all you have to do is just swim.

DAININ KATAGIRI

Each Moment Is the Universe


Suspect suspicion, and doubt only doubt.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Deceit"


Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

RICK PITINO & BILL REYNOLDS

Success Is a Choice


Doubt is excellent when it is a question of securing what we already possess, but it can be fatal if it impedes us in pursuit of what we seek.

CARLOS FUENTES

Terra Nostra


Doubt is a surly, envious, egotistic emotion, a bitter denial of everything but the sullen self.

RUSSELL KIRK

The Conservative Mind


Doubt is like a cloud which steals over the mind and prevents it from perceiving clearly, and from solving any problem concerning that which is perceived. Like a cloud, doubt increases or decreases in size and density as one fails to act according to his understanding, or is self-reliant and acts with confidence. Yet doubt is a condition of the mind necessary to be experienced and overcome before clearness of mental vision can be obtained.

HAROLD W. PERCIVAL

The Word, July 1908