Doubt Quotes
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"We learn from failure, not from success!"
"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
"Inventory:"Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."
"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
"I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess."
"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."
"Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
"In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know."
"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
"I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom."
"Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious."
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."
"Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful."
"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."
"We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt."
"Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death."
"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither."
"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."
"The deep roots never doubt spring will come."
"Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself."
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room -- room for the human mind."
"Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both."
"Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt."
"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading."
"He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence."
"Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)"
"He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out."
"The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)"
"The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom."
"Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
"The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth."
"Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners."
"Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain."
"Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty."
"Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks."
"There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong."
"Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back."
"practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable"~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor"
"I started having doubts right on top of my certainty."
"Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure."
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
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