Doubt Quotes - Page 2

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

  John Henry Newman

  Christianity, Difficulty, Thousand

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Position of my Mind since 1845'

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Doubt can only be removed by action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Fear, Progress

  Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (Freiherr de), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus (1827). “Wilhelm Meister's travels”, p.8

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Business

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• I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

  Will Smith

  Self, Keys, Needs

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• To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

  William Manchester

  Mind, Medieval, Possibility

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• Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

  Barbara Kruger

  Belief, Sanity, Temper

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.223, MIT Press

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• Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

  Jerry Saltz

  Way, Aggressive, Certainty

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• Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

  Eric Maisel

  Painting, Because I Can, I Can

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Failure, Giving, Reason

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.174

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• To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unfair, Duty, Indispensable

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Littles, Achieve, Painter

  Robert Byrd, Leonardo (da Vinci) (2003). “Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer”, Dutton Books for Young Readers

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Pay, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Term, When In Doubt

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Any belief worth having must survive doubt

  George Bernard Shaw

  Belief

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• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

  Edith M. Thomas

  Law, Looks, Needles

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Historical, Language

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When we are not sure, we are alive.

  Graham Greene

  Inspirational, Life, Alive

  Graham Greene (2010). “The Quiet American”, p.8, Random House

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• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Failure, Men, Enemy

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• Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Orthodoxy, Rooted

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• Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Doubtful

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