Doubt Quotes · Page 144

“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.”

— G.B. Burgin

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

— Aldo Leopold

“To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

— Bertrand Russell

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

— Immanuel Kant

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

— Tim O'Brien

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

— Michael Lewis

Imagine you were flowing with energy and confidence, free of doubt and fear.

— Shawn Phillips

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope…

— Paullina Simons

You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm…

— Eric Gagne

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full…

— Bertrand Russell

When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve…

— Adam Leipzig

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the…

— Nicky Gumbel

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt…

— Clarence Darrow

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at…

— Anne Bronte

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who…

— Leigh Bardugo

Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no…

— Marcia Clark

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act…

— Alexander Pope

Yes that's true but the house wasn't a home. Like what you..you know, what you go to a home to each night.…

— John Wayne Gacy

I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to…

— Anton Chekhov

“Doubt is the only force capable of disturbing the seed or impression; to avoid a miscarriage of so wonderful a child, walk…

— Neville Goddard

If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world;…

— Norman Vincent Peale

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.…

— Atul Gawande

Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitioning from fitting in to standing out.

— Drake

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

— Sheila Ballantyne

I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

— Kenneth Tynan

Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.

— Kay Hooper

“the universe is indeed a beautiful place. If you doubt me, go check for yourself.”

— Douglas Coupland

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

— John Donne

“Wide are men’s inquiries into uncertainties; wider still are their disputes about conjectures.”

— Tertullian

My reality was that I would become a tennis player. I never had any doubt about it. It was my life.

— Patrick Mouratoglou

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

— Cate Blanchett

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

— James Grant

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

— Richard Bach

“Humans are antifragile; exposure to discomfort and uncertainty -physical, emotional and intellectual- is necessary.”

— Heather E. Heying

“I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.”

— Regina O'Melveny