#Doubt Quotes

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.”

“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”

“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”

“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”

“To saucy doubts and fears.”

“Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”

“Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”

“Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“Doubting things go ill often hurts moreThan to be sure they do; for certaintiesEither are past remedies, or, timely knowing,The remedy then born.”

“O, what damned minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!”

“Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.”

“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.”

“Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.”

“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.”

“Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?”

“I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

“The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.”

“Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

“I think, therefore I doubt.”

“What can we say with certainty?”

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

“Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.”

“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”

“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”

“Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.”

“The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.”

“Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.”

“The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.”

“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”

“I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.”

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.”

“But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.”

“What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.”

“Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.”

“Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.”

“It comes down to a doubt about the wisdomOf having children after having had them,So there is nothing we can do about itBut warn the children they perhaps should have none.”

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”

“Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.”

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

“If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.”

“Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.”

“Through doubt we arrive at the truth.”

“Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.”

“The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.”

“By doubting we come at truth.”

“Doubt can only be removed by action.”