Doubt Quotes

We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.

Do not let doubt, fear, panic, hysteria or even extreme faith to get in your way. Believe in yourself!

Let us reject the counsels of doubt and calculation

No, not enough. Never enough. We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Doubt is like dye. Once it spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Nothing is certain, not even this.

Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.

All progress is born of inquiry. Doubt is often better than over-confidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt my love.

Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self knowledge[...] You will be able to fulfill many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical change.

Human beings are perhaps never more dangerous than when they are convinced beyond a doubt that they are right...

If the Sun and Moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.

Often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.

I am the doubter and the doubt.

Doubt everything.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty