Doubt Quotes

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of […]

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move.

When in doubt, duck.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.

I’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome.

So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which […]