Doubt Quotes And Sayings

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Doubt Quotes And Sayings


“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”
– Mark Buchanan

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
– Paul Tillich

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.”
– Toba Beta

“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”
– W.H. Auden

“The doubter doesn’t sure which one is right, but it tends to demean other people’s beliefs.”
– Toba Beta

“The flea that doubts doesn’t jump nearly as high”
– Marty Rubin

“The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.”
– Saul D. Alinsky

“The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional – and not some other kind of reality.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)”
– Rollo May

“The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heard by listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.”
– Toba Beta

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”
– Marc Bloch

“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.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama

“They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”
– Russell Shorto

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
– Bram Stoker

“What are men? Children who doubt.”
– Derek Walcott

“When you don’t know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much.”
– Toba Beta

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt”
– Unknown

“Yes, K?l?mas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you K?l?mas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: ‘this is our teacher‘. But, O K?l?mas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up… And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama

“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

“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.”
– Francis Bacon

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