Doubt Quotes

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

“It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.”

“A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.”

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”

“Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.”

“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”

“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”

“Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.”

“You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.”

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.”

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

“My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.”

“Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”

“Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.”

“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

“In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.”

“When in doubt, don't.”

“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening”

“To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.”

“Am I lost or just less found?”

“A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.”

“It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.”