Doubt Quotes - Page 4

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fools Day, April Fools, Foolish

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Dry

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• True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Science, Ignorant, Teach

  The Tragic Sense of Life Ch. V

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• If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Certainty, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"
  Is worse to man than worse necessity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Bitter, Perplexed

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.133

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• You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Stronger, Shows

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Progress

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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• A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

  Karl Kraus

  Motivational, Success, Strong

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Mistake, Track

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• Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

  Adyashanti

  Negative, Cynicism

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• When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

  Adam Leipzig

  Block, Space, Needs

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• Never believe what you cannot doubt.

  Robin Skelton

  Believe

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Reality, Risk, Perception

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• Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Self, Profound, Way

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• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt And Fear

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Causes, Knows

  "Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, 1588.

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Laughter, Laughing, Territory

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• Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Twilight, Heart, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.320

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• I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Stupidity, Dumb

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• Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

  Bram Stoker

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.315, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  War, Sides, Anticipation

  'The Ancient Sage' (1885) l. 66

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