Famous Quotes about Doubt (55 Quotations)

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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

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

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.

When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask.

When you doubt, abstain.

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