Sayings about Doubts

The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb

Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverbs

To wish to know is to wish to doubt. ~ French Proverbs

To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverbs

If there is still doubt do not accuse. ~ Spanish Proverbs

Doubt is the key to knowledge. ~ Iranian Proverbs

Jealousy is nourished by doubt. ~ French Proverbs

The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt. ~ Mongolian Proverbs

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverbs

Quotations about Doubts

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thoreau

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ~ Henry David

Doubt can only be removed by action. ~ Goethe

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ~ H. L. Mencken

He that knows nothing doubts nothing. ~ George Herbert

Doubt is the father of invention. ~ Galileo Galilei

Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Goethe

To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Goethe

An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. ~ Walter Malone

Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. ~ Author Unknown

The only limit of our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. ~ Goethe

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.~ John Christian Bovee

Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.~ Bhagavad Gita

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.~ Kahlil Gibran

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ~ William Shakespeare

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ~ Clarence Darrow

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. ~ Gerald Barzan

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.~ Francis Bacon

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ~ George Iles

Doubt breeds doubt. ~ Franz Grillparzer

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive! ~ Henry Rollins

When you doubt, abstain. ~ Zoroaster

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.~ Miguel De Unamuno

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out. ~ William Blake

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~ Wilson Mizner

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ~ Thomas Carlyle

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ~ John Bunyan

The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ~ Francis Quarles

When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. ~ Author Unknown

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow. ~ Philip James Bailey

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare

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. ~ Rene Descartes

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ~ Philip Massinger

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ~ Hosea Ballou

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