Doubt Proverbs

Sayings about Doubt

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

Jealousy 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