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Henri Poincare

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Joseph Roux

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Albert Guerard

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Unknown

Doubt vs. Faith Doubt sees the obstacles. Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars on high. Doubt questions,'Who believes' Faith answers,'I'.

Rollo May

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Thomas Carlyle

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Napolean Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

John Lancaster Spalding

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

Kahlil Gibran

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Real Live Preacher

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

La Rochefoucauld

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

F. F. Bosworth

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

Unknown

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

John Heisman

When in doubt, punt

Jan Smuts

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

M Scott Peck

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

Marge Piercy

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Wilson Mizner

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.

Johann von Goethe

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

FREDERICK W. FABER: _The Right Must Win._

For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.

Hal Boyle

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Unknown

If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.

Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Andr Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.

Unknown

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

Legal Proverb

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.

Matrix, The

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Henry Louis Mencken

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Ed Meese

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

James H. Boren

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Abraham Lincoln

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

George Gordon Byron

There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Henri Poincare

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Heywood

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Rene Descartes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Unknown

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Dane Helmers

Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I ha

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fu

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble o

"If at first you doubt, doubt again." William Bennett

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

When in doubt, do without.

When in doubt, think.

Hey!! When in Doubt Whip it Out!!!!

To philosophize is to doubt.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

When in doubt, duck.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

If you doubt, you'll get no ice cream.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

When in doubt, use brute force

Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am

It is now beyond any doubt that cigarettes are the biggest cause of statistics.

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

If in doubt, make it sound convincing.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.

Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

'Tis better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt

'Tis better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove al doubt

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

It is better to remain silent and thought a fool then to speak up and remove all doubt.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.