Doubt Quotes

38 quotations about Doubt
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon · Doubt
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon · Doubt
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Philip James Bailey · Doubt
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou · Doubt
I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything.
Gerald Barzan · Doubt
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
Bhagavad Gita · Doubt
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake · Doubt
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nevell Bovee · Doubt
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
John Bunyan · Doubt
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke · Doubt
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle · Doubt
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle · Doubt
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel De Cervantes · Doubt
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton · Doubt
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow · Doubt
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli · Doubt
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne · Doubt
Doubt is the father of invention.
Galileo Galilei · Doubt
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran · Doubt
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Doubt
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Doubt
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Doubt
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
George Herbert · Doubt
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes · Doubt
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
George Iles · Doubt

Authors on Doubt

Francis Bacon Philip James Bailey Hosea Ballou Gerald Barzan Bhagavad Gita William Blake Christian Nevell Bovee John Bunyan Edmund Burke Thomas Carlyle Miguel De Cervantes Chinese Proverb Charles Caleb Colton Clarence Darrow Benjamin Disraeli John Donne Galileo Galilei Kahlil Gibran Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe George Herbert