Doubt Quotes - Page 72

Haters and doubters got me here, but supporters keep me here.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

It seems to me that all of us, in our own way, have our own personal lagos. We all have within us a voice that is whispering doubt, that is whispering suspicion, that's telling us there's something wrong, there's something missing, there's something that should be different. And we easily become hypnotized by that voice of doubt.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

When you doubt, abstain.

I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.