Doubt Quotes

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

Education, Whether, Punishment

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle

Alone, Whatever, Action

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

Through, Walk, Cities

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Her, Half

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith, Honest, Lives

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

Men, Become, Civilized

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes

Confidence, Perfect, Artist

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pain, Either, Brief

In love we often doubt what we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Ambrose Bierce

Last, Possible, Begins

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Religion, Religious, Thinkers

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx

Number, Greatly, Machinery

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison

Religion, Government, Past

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddhism, Creed

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Overcome, Enjoyed

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins

Yourself, Real, Start

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes

Along, Pass, Stick

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

Yourself, Laugh, Strange

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

Sometimes, Means, Point

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel

Life, Hope, Human

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Good, Wise

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
Thomas S. Monson

Faith, Time, Mind

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg

Party, Wild, Truly

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

Truth, Find, Seeking

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

Fear, Failure, Conquered

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Open, Among

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin

Work, Age, Best

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope

Wise, Cautious, Prone

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda Meir

Nothing, Blame, Says

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