Doubt Quotes

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.

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