Famous Doubt Quotes

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
-- Karl Kraus

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
-- Bible

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
-- William Shakespeare

But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt, And doubt is brother devil to Despair!
-- John Boyle OReilly LL D

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
-- Chinese Proverb

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. - Frances R. Havergal,
-- Frances R Havergal

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
-- George Iles

Doubt is the father of invention.
-- Galileo Galilei

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
-- Edmund Hoyle

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
-- Dante

Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
-- Robertson Davies

He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.
-- Edmund Hoyle

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
-- Brazilian Proverb

He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
-- William Cowper

I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,' 'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor.
-- William Shakespeare

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your doubt runneth high-- North points to the needle!
-- Edith Matilda Thomas

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.
-- Sir John Denham