Doubt Quotes

"Everybody told me I was too small to be a wrestler."

"People always want to doubt you."

"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt."

Honoré de Balzac

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

Suzy Kassem

"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

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Voltaire

"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

"What do I know?"

Michel de Montaigne

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

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

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."

William James

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."

Paul Tillich

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

Wilson Mizner

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“I have reservations about everything I do.”

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

“Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”

“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”

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

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

Francis Bacon