Quotes on Doubt

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

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

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

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

When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.

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

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.

Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.