Doubt Quotes - Page 5

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

I'd rather die believing than live doubting

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.

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.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

When you are in doubt abstain.

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

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

We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.

Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.