Doubt Quotes - Page 7

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sex

  "Ideals and Doubts" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Illinois Law Review, 1915.

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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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• Even the genius ask questions.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Musician

  Song: Me Against The World

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• And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

  Anne Rice

  Self, Long, I Realized

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fear, Majors

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.13, Delacorte Press

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• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Praying, Conviction

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• The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Sides, Beam

  Alexander Pope (1849). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready”, p.77

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• All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

  Robert Browning

  Life, White, Black

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 209

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• The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

  Francis Quarles

  Perseverance, Lying, Literature

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• Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

  Orrin Woodward

  Journey, Mind, Obstacles

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2016

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• With knowledge grows doubt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.88, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

  Honore de Balzac

  White, Steps, Trembling

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• Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Parent, Humans, Human Knowledge

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• When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happiness, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

  Criss Jami

  Exclamation Points, Stories, Realistic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Men, People

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.76, Moody Publishers

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• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Homer, René Le Bossu (1769). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.49

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• 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.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• Doubt is the origin of wisdom

  Rene Descartes

  Aries, Thrive

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• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Who knows most, doubts most.

  Robert Browning

  Religion, Atheism, Knows

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.582, Wordsworth Editions

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