--- title: "28 Doubt Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "28 Doubt quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Doubt sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/friedrich-nietzsche-15_air_one-should-not-go-into-churches-if-one-w_1282246.jpg" --- > [One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-should-not-go-into-churches-if-one-wants-to-breathe-pure-air/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/friedrich-nietzsche-15_air_one-should-not-go-into-churches-if-one-w_1282246.jpg) > [Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/madness-is-the-result-not-of-uncertainty-but-certainty/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c29/friedrich-nietzsche-15_certainty_madness-is-the-result-not-of-uncertainty_122849.jpg) > [If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/if-a-man-have-a-strong-faith-he-can-indulge-in-the-luxury-of/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/friedrich-nietzsche-15_doubt_if-a-man-have-a-strong-faith-he-can-indu_766837.jpg) > [Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/not-doubt-certainty-is-what-drives-one-insane/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_certainty_not-doubt-certainty-is-what-drives-one-i_2167647.jpg) > [There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/there-is-no-better-soporific-and-sedative-than-skepticism/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_doubt_there-is-no-better-soporific-and-sedativ_1212279.jpg) > [It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-not-doubt-is-certitude-that-drives-you-mad/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_certitude_it-is-not-doubt-is-certitude-that-drives_994021.jpg) > [Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/madness-is-the-result-not-of-uncertainty-but-of-certainty/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/friedrich-nietzsche-15_doubt_madness-is-the-result-not-of-uncertainty_1893391.jpg) > [Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/belief-in-truth-begins-with-doubting-all-that-has-hitherto-been/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/friedrich-nietzsche-15_being-true_belief-in-truth-begins-with-doubting-all_1847456.jpg) > [“We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-have-to-cease-to-think-if-we-refuse-to-do-it-in-the-prison-house/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/friedrich-nietzsche-15_thought_we-have-to-cease-to-think-if-we-refuse-t_1870644.jpg) > [Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/whoever-regards-human-beings-as-a-herd-and-flees-them-as-swiftly-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_doubt_whoever-regards-human-beings-as-a-herd-a_473714.jpg) > [Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/only-great-pain-is-as-the-teacher-of-great-suspicion-the-ultimate/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f3/friedrich-nietzsche-15_doubt_only-great-pain-is-as-the-teacher-of-gre_714738.jpg) > [“Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/wherever-life-and-knowledge-seemed-to-contradict-each-other-there-was/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_doubt_wherever-life-and-knowledge-seemed-to-co_3106492.jpg) > [A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-dionysian-life-task-needs-the-hardness-of-the-hammer-and-one-of-its/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/friedrich-nietzsche-15_destruction_a-dionysian-life-task-needs-the-hardness_2291280.jpg) > [Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/women-are-quite-able-to-make-friends-with-a-man-but-to-preserve-such/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/friedrich-nietzsche-15_able_women-are-quite-able-to-make-friends-wit_1368189.jpg) > [Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/truth-will-have-no-gods-before-it-the-belief-in-truth-begins-with-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_attitude_truth-will-have-no-gods-before-it-the-be_571291.jpg) > [But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-not-to-perish-from-internal-distress-and-doubt-when-one-inflicts/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/friedrich-nietzsche-15_cry_but-not-to-perish-from-internal-distress_2557899.jpg) > [Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/whoever-deliberately-attempts-to-insure-confidentiality-with-another/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/friedrich-nietzsche-15_confidence_whoever-deliberately-attempts-to-insure_424536.jpg) > [No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-one-talks-more-passionately-about-his-rights-than-he-who-in-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_acquire_no-one-talks-more-passionately-about-his_295203.jpg) > [Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/who-can-attain-to-anything-great-if-he-does-not-feel-in-himself-the-2/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ability_who-can-attain-to-anything-great-if-he-d_3019553.jpg) > [One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-should-not-be-deceived-great-spirits-are-skeptics-strength/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab0/friedrich-nietzsche-15_born_one-should-not-be-deceived-great-spirits_2850666.jpg) > [Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/christianity-has-done-its-utmost-to-close-the-circle-and-declared/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ambiguous_christianity-has-done-its-utmost-to-clos_1264701.jpg) > [Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/historical-refutation-as-the-definitive-refutation-in-former-times/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_atheism_historical-refutation-as-the-definitive_355880.jpg) > [It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-only-great-pain-that-slow-sustained-pain-that-takes-its-time-in/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dab/friedrich-nietzsche-15_burned_it-is-only-great-pain-that-slow-sustaine_2413096.jpg) > [“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/doubt-as-sin-christianity-has-done-its-utmost-to-close-the-circle-and/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_atheism_doubt-as-sin-christianity-has-done-its-u_1683683.jpg) > [Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/belief-in-the-truth-commences-with-the-doubting-of-all-those-truths/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/friedrich-nietzsche-15_belief_belief-in-the-truth-commences-with-the-d_2196963.jpg) > [It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-no-doubt-possible-to-fly-but-first-you-must-know-how-to-dance/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/342/friedrich-nietzsche-15_angel_it-is-no-doubt-possible-to-fly-but-first_1236460.jpg) > [Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/madness-is-not-a-consequence-of-uncertainty-but-of-certainty/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/friedrich-nietzsche-15_certainty_madness-is-not-a-consequence-of-uncertai_1640388.jpg) > [A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-vocation-makes-us-unthinking-that-is-its-greatest-blessing-for-it/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/647/friedrich-nietzsche-15_behinds_a-vocation-makes-us-unthinking-that-is-i_1143973.jpg) ## Other authors on Doubt - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 45 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/bertrand-russell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 33 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-p-feynman-78819.jpg) Richard P. Feynman 30 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/richard-p-feynman/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 30 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 24 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-mark-89514.jpg) Terry Mark 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/terry-mark/) - [Mark Twain 23 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/mark-twain/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 22 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/rush-limbaugh/) - [Bangambiki Habyarimana 21 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/bangambiki-habyarimana/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/oscar-wilde/) ## More by Friedrich Nietzsche > [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "28 Doubt Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": 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