Doubt Quotes

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  The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

  Learned Hand

  Political, Support, Devil

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• 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.

  Nancy Lopez

  Fear, Positivity, Doubting Everything

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Laurens van der Post

  Freedom, Fear, Democracy

  The Lost World of the Kalahari ch. 3 (1958)

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Doors, Darkness, Needs

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• He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

  George Herbert

  Knows

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

  George Iles

  Wisdom, Science, Beginnings And Ends

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Success, Faith, Motivation

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Sometimes, Distrust

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Powerful, Soul, Solutions

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• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Faith, Lonely

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Belief, Wiser

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• Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Doubted

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1888). “Royal Bounty ...”

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• Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Madness, Illness, Doubted

  Gustave Flaubert (2002). “Memoirs of a Madman”, Hesperus Press

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Faith, Atheist, People

  "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Pioneers, Invention

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• 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

  Life, Truth, Real

  "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

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• Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Inspirational, Doors, Inquiry

  Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (2013). “Essays and Reviews”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

  Rollo May

  Relationship, Peace, Mean

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Shows, Prove

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

  William C. Richardson

  Success, Mind

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