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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, 1872-1970, British philosopher 27 likes |
 | When in doubt, tell the truth. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 22 likes |
 | Never take anything for granted. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 8 likes |
 | The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer ‐ Peter Pan 8 likes |
 | You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 7 likes |
 | A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 7 likes |
 | Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 7 likes |
 | Doubts can make you a philosopher, but only faith can make you an apostle. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims 6 likes |
 | I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 6 likes |
 | Intellectuals are always willing to question a truth, but rarely a mistake. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 6 likes |
| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Measure for Measure 6 likes |
 | I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. — Doug McLeod, 1946-, American blues musician 5 likes |
 | Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 5 likes |
 | There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 5 likes |
 | Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education. — Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright 5 likes |
 | 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. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 5 likes |
 | The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | In love, the one who doubts, accuses. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 4 likes |
 | Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 3 likes |
 | 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, 1561-1626, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark. — Lord Acton, 1834-1902, English historian 3 likes |
 | Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. — Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 3 likes |
 | No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvellous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 3 likes |
| Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
| We must be skeptical even of our skepticism. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
| If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
| In all affairs –love, religion, politics, or business– it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935, 1 likes |
 | When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
 | The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 1 likes |
 | You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
 | The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 1 likes |
 | Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | I’d rather see folks doubt what’s true than accept what isn’t. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny . — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. — Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893, French writer 1 likes |
 | Where there is no longer room for doubt, there is no longer room for faith either. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Where there is doubt, there is freedom. Ubi dubium ibi libertas. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 56 likes |
| Doubt everything. De omnibus dubitandum. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher (Karl Marx’s favorite motto and, also, title of a book by Søren Kierkegaard ) 53 likes |
 | When in doubt, abstain. In dubio abstine. 24 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Take it with a grin of salt. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 3 likes |
