Doubt Proverbs
Sayings about Doubt
The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt. ~ Mongolian ProverbJealousy is nourished by doubt. ~ French Proverb
Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. ~ Saying
When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. ~ Saying
Doubt cannot override a certainty. ~ The Talmud
To wish to know is to wish to doubt. ~ French Proverb
If there is still doubt do not accuse. ~ Spanish Proverb
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb
To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverb
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverb
The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb
Quotation about Doubt
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 cannot override a certainty. ~ The Talmud
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. ~ Philip James Bailey
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Doubt can only be removed by action. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ~ William Shakespeare
I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. ~ Gerald Barzan
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. ~ Miguel De Unamuno
Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. ~ Victor Hugo
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. ~ Frances R. Havergal,
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. ~ Sir Fulke Greville
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ~ Joseph Roux
Man was not made to question, but adore. ~ Edward Young
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. ~ Paul Johannes Tillich
Doubt is the father of invention. ~ Galileo Galilei
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. ~ Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
In contemplation, if a man 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
Doubt is hell in the human soul. ~ Madame Gasparin
The only limit of our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ~ Henry David Thoreau
When in doubt, win the trick. ~ Edmund Hoyle
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~ Wilson Mizner
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. ~ Bhagavad Gita
I love sometimes to doubt, as well as know. ~ Dante
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. ~ William Blake
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. ~ Dante
Doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare
He that knows nothing doubts nothing. ~ George Herbert
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ~ John Bunyan
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. ~ Robert Browning
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. ~ Benjamin Jowett
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ~ George Iles
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ~ H. L. Mencken
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ~ Francis Bacon
An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. ~ Walter Malone
When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy. ~ Cervantes
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
The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ~ Francis Quarles
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ~ Clarence Darrow
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive! ~ Henry Rollins
When you doubt, abstain. ~ Zoroaster
Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Doubt is the shadow of truth. ~ Philip James Bailey
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ~ Hosea Ballou
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Doubt breeds doubt. ~ Franz Grillparzer
Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. ~ Honore de Balzac