Doubt Quotes - Page 39

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

"There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

If you question anything enough, you'll begin to doubt it.

Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.