Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
—Ralph Marston American Self-Help Author
If there is still doubt do not accuse.
—Spanish Proverb
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–91) Polish-born American Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
—Rene Descartes (1596–1650) French Mathematician, Philosopher
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
—George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American Critic, Editor, Writer
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
—Unknown
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
—Benjamin Jowett (1817–93) British Theologian, Educator
Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
—Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-born Protestant Theologian
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b.1929) American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
—B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher
Doubt breeds doubt.
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872) Austrian Dramatist, Playwright
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
—Philip Sidney (1554–86) English Soldier Poet, Courtier
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
Great intellects are skeptical.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
—Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American Civil Liberties Lawyer
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad… . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Novelist
There’s nothing certain in a man’s life except this: That he must lose it.
—Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902) British Victorian Novelist, Essayist, Critic
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
—Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Theologian
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
—Bernie S. Siegel (b.1932) American Writer, Surgeon
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
—Margaret Drabble (b.1939) English Novelist, Critic, Biographer, Short Story Writer
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
—John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric
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