Doubt Quotes

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Don’t give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

O Lord – if there is a Lord; save my soul – if I have a soul.

To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

We will not say much of the wretchedness of doubt. To believe is to be “strong”. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth the doing.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

When in doubt, risk it.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.