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Doubt Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
- Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized,…
- 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…
- In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right…
- A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that…
- Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
- Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
- I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
- The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
- of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who…
- The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is…
- Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
More Doubt Quotes
- There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I… — Michele Bachmann
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale
- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
- Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. — John Banville
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. — Henry Adams
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore