Doubt Quotes

“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

“Doubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“So, what can I do?” I asked.

“Annoy?”

I gave him a hurt look.

Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.”

“Maybe I can’t do anything.”

His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.”
― Dannika Dark, Sterling

“I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“When others in doubt, your strong belief steers.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.”
― Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song

“When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.”
― Swindoll Charles R.

“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.”
― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

“To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.”
― Os Guinness, In two minds: The dilemma of doubt & how to resolve it

“They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”
― Russell Shorto, Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

“The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,
but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.”
― Stephen Richards

“Les dieux sont ceux qui ne doutent jamais.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'.”
― Howard Frank Mosher, Walking to Gatlinburg

“You have every cause for anxiety. We are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society.”
― László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance

“You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“الشكوك ليست أبدًا مغالاة ، الشك ، دائمًا الشك ، بهذه الطريقة وحدها تصل إلى الحقيقة”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart”
― Jeremy Aldana

“So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere.
We believe and we doubt. Believing and doubting share the same inevitability, but they are not equal. They cannot lay the same claim on our allegiance. They do not share the same power.
If there are places beyond the cul-de-sac, doubt cannot take us there.”
― John Ortberg

“As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.”
― Ron Leshem, Beaufort

“Only the dull don’t doubt!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Life wasn't about doubt, because if it was, we'd never get anything done.”
― Aishabella Sheikh, Jungle Princess

“...The less I think of it the more certain I am.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable

“I saw that, although they were at the mercy of the sweltering heat, or the pains of aging or poverty, they could tolerate these because their faith gave them the hope of being united in spirit with a supernatural presence.

I still denied that presence. My denial, I was realizing, was my armor; it allowed me to deflect a barrage of difficult questions. But it didn't answer those questions. It protected me from charlatans, yes, but it didn't fill my emptiness or give me direction. Doubt served a purpose, but it also prevented me from trusting anyone or anything. Without trust, how could I ever be happy?”
― Visakha Dasi, Five Years, Eleven Months and a Lifetime of Unexpected Love: A Memoir

“Today, democracy is being weakened by lies that come in waves and pound our senses the way a beach is assaulted by the surf. Leaders who play by the rules are having trouble staying ahead of a relentless news cycle and must devote too much effort trying to disprove stories that seem to come out of nowhere and have been invented solely to do them in.

All this has consequences. Small "d" democrats riding to power on the promise of change often begin to lose popularity the day they take office. Globalization, which is not an ideological choice but a fact of life, has become for many an evil to be fought at all costs. Capitalism is considered a four-letter word by an increasing number of people who--if not for its fruits--would be without food, shelter, clothing, and smartphones. In a rising number of countries, citizens profess a lack of faith in every public institution and the official data they produce.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“It is not doubt, it is certainty which makes mad... But to feel in this way one must be profound, abyss, philosopher... We all fear truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Life is the hesitation between an exclamation and a question. Doubt is resolved by a period.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet