Doubt Quotes
4294 Doubt quotes by 2661 unique authors
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Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with…
— Helen Keller
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
— Cyril Connolly
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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
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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
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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
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I love to doubt as well as know.
— Dante Alighieri
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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
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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
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
— St. Jerome
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
— John Heywood
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
— Gordon W. Allport
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Doubt is but another element of faith.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
— Unknown Author
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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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