Doubt Quotes

If you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.

How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.

He who Doubts from what he sees, will ne’er Believe, do what you Please. If the Sun and Moon should doubt, they’d immediately Go out.

From the moment that your suspicions are aroused, you ought to be like a man mounted on a tricky horse, who always watches the ears of the beast, in fear of being thrown from the saddle.[Dès ce moment, vous êtes comme un cavalier qui, monté sur un cheval sournois, doit toujours le regarder entre les deux oreilles, sous peine d’être désarçonné.]

For all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.[Le doute n’est pas un état bien agréable, mais l’assurance est un état ridicule.]

Doubt is faith’s shadow. If you are unable to doubt you can’t be a believer.

Doubt is death for souls; it is a leprosy that seizes on worn – out races; it is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.[Le doute, c’est la mort pour les âmes; c’est une lèpre qui prend les races usées; c’est une maladie qui vient de la science et qui conduit à la folie.]

Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.[Ser homem é ter dúvidas, e, mesmo assim, continuar em seu caminho.]

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.[Изо ста подозрений никогда не составится доказательства.]