Doubt Quotes - Page 5

• No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Inferiority, Likes

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.287, Penguin

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• When you doubt, abstain.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Fire, Looks

  'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary' (1611) l. 205

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• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Philosophy, Real

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• Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Heaven, Enemy

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• If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Shame, Ifs

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I have doubts! I have such doubts!

  John Patrick Shanley

  John Patrick Shanley (2008). “Doubt (movie tie-in edition)”, p.61, Theatre Communications Group

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• When in doubt, win the trick.

  Edmond Hoyle

  Winning, Tricks, When In Doubt

  Hoyle's Games Improved, ed. Charles Jones (1790).

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• The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Art, Math, Pragmatists

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• It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Freedom, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The Value of Science". Public address at the National Academy of Sciences, published in "What Do You Care What Other People Think" (1988), Autumn 1955.

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• I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Paganism, Deny, Pagan Gods

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• But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Blue, Soul

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• I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Reflection, World

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• Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Tyranny, Accomplices

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• Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Philosophy, Sin

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
  Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

  Philip James Bailey

  Running, Files, Gauntlet

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.34

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• Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Giving, Unqualified, Firsts

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.322

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

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

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• There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

  Richard P. Feynman

  No Doubt

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

  Kobo Abe

  Feet, Minutes, Shakes

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• Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

  John Hutchinson

  Faith, Offering, Mind

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• O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

  Ronald Knox

  Race, Helping, Thee

  Attributed, in Langford Reed 'Complete Limerick Book' (1924)

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• My mind is clouded with a doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mind, Clouded

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• When in doubt, lean to the side of #‎ mercy .

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sides, Mercy, When In Doubt

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