When In Doubt Quotes

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

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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

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

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Great love leaves little doubt.

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

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

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Doubt is the father of invention.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

When you doubt your powers, you power your doubts

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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.

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

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.

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

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.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

Donald Trump removed all doubt. He is running for president as a fascist demagogue.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.