Doubt Quotes

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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.… — Joseph Addison
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon… — Ambrose Bierce
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination… — Kenny Smith
There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might… — Pal Benko
Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us… — John Welwood
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. — Cyril Connolly
He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this… — Leo Buscaglia
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing… — Rainer Maria Rilke
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I love to doubt as well as know. — Dante Alighieri
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. — George Eliot
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us. — St. Jerome
Time trieth troth in every doubt. — John Heywood
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. — Gordon W. Allport
Doubt is but another element of faith. — Saint Augustine
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes… — Robert Browning
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind. — Unknown Author
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,… — Bertrand Russell

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