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DOUBt quotes
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Who never doubted, never half believed.—Where doubt is, there truth is —it is her shadow.
"If you are in doubt," says Talleyrand, "whether to write a letter or not—don't!"—And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
In the hands of unbelief half-truths are made to do the work of whole falsehoods.—The sowing of doubts is the sowing of dragon's teeth, which ere long will sprout up into armed and hostile men.
A bitter and perplexed, "What shall I do?" is worse to man than worse necessity.
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom.—When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again.—But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.
The doubter's dissatisfaction with his doubt is as great and widespread as the doubt itself.
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
Edwards, Tryon
'Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment in the truth.
Doubt is hell in the human soul.
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
Doubt is almost a natural phase of life; but as certainly as it is natural, it is also temporary, unless it is unwisely wrought into conduct.
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all the fulness of his nature, without also knowing God.
Doubt is brother devil to despair.
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt.
When a doubt is propounded, learn to distinguish, and show wherein a thing holds, and wherein it doth not hold. The not distinguishing where things should be distinguished, and the not confounding, where things should be confounded, is the cause of all the mistakes in the world.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise—the tent that searches to the bottom of the worst.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearmg to attempt.
Beware of doubt—faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite.
There is no weariness like that which rises from doubting—from the perpetual jogging of unfixed reason.—The torment of suspense is very great; but as soon as the wavering, perplexed mind begins to determine, be the determination which way soever it may be, it will find itself at ease.
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age.—It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization—the dim night of our resplendent day.—But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from, conflict is often the strongest and best.
Misgive, that you may not mistake.
It is never worth while to suggest doubts in order to show how cleverly we can answer them.
There is no moral power in doubt, or in the denial of truth, and any human soul that tries to live on it will die, both morally and spiritually.—It is negative, and there is no life in it.
The vain man is generally a doubter.—It is Newton who sees himself as a child on the seashore, and his discoveries in the colored shells.
Man was not made to question, but adore.
When you doubt, abstain.
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