Quotes about Doubt

“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”

“Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow.”

“To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”

“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”

“For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.”

“When you doubt, abstain.”

“Doubt is the key to knowledge.”

“Doubt is the father of invention.”

“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”

“Doubt can only be removed by action.”

“He that knows nothing doubts nothing.”

“The road to perseverance lies by doubt.”

“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”

“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”

“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

“An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.”

“Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.”

“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”

“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.”

“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.”

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”

“There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

“I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything.”

“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”