Doubt Quotes - Page 50

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

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

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.

The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.