Quotes on Doubted

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’

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

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.