Doubt Quotes

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

~ Hosea Ballou

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

~ Paul Tillich

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

~ Charles Kennedy

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

~ Colin Powell

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

~ John Forbes Nash

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

~ Helene D. Gayle

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

~ Eddie Vedder

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

~ José Saramago

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

~ Marvin Hamlisch

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

~ Thomas S. Monson

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

~ Thomas S. Monson

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

~ Barack Obama

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

~ Anne Lamott

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

~ Wayne Dyer

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

~ Joyce Meyer

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

~ William James

From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.

~ Dan Gilbert

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

~ George Carey

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

~ Ernest Holmes

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

~ Lillian Smith

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

~ Eric Sevareid

As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

~ Victoria Pendleton

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

~ Ken Cuccinelli

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

~ Mary Berry

I think my biggest tip - and I consider it a part of my beauty routine - is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

~ John Galsworthy

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

~ Walt Whitman

Doubt is the father of invention.

~ Ambrose Bierce

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

~ Woodrow Wilson

No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.

~ Max Von Sydow

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

~ Martin Scorsese

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

~ George Orwell

When in doubt, don't.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

~ Steve Albini