DOUBT

Related Subjects: Atheism, Belief, Certainty, Credulity, Cynicism, Fear, Heresy, Pessimism, Suspense, Suspicion, Trust

1. Who never doubted never half believed.
   Where doubt there truth is—'tis her shadow.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus
   

2. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.—Bible, Romans 14:23
   

3. Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself.—C. N. BOVEE

4. A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.—BUNYAN, Pilgrim's Progress
   

5. I've stood upon Achilles' tomb,
   And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

6. He would not, with a peremptory tone,
   Assert the nose upon his face his own.—COWPER, Conversation
   

7. Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.—DANTE, Inferno
   

8. Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.—CLARENCE DARROW
   

9. In order to reach the Truth, it is necessary, once in one's life, to put everything in doubt—so far as possible.—DESCARTES
   

10. Scepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.—DIDEROT
    

11. The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.—ANATOLE FRANCE,
    Penguin Island
    

12. Of that there is no manner of doubt—
    No probable, possible shadow of doubt—
    No possible doubt whatever.—W. S. GILBERT, The Gondoliers
    

13. Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.—F. R. HAVERGAL, Royal Bounty
    

14. When in doubt, win the trick.—HOYLE, Twenty-four Rules for Learners
    

15. A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.—LOWELL, Shakespeare Once More
    

16. 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.—HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
    

17. Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.—MOLIERE, Le Misanthrope
    

18. Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.—J. B. O'REILLY, Prometheus
    

19. O Lord—if there is a Lord;
    save my soul—if I have soul. Amen.—RENAN, Prayer of a Skeptic
    

20. In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business—it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.—BERTRAND RUSSELL
    

21. And better had they ne'er been born,
    Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.—SCOTT, The Monastery
    

22. But yet, madam—.
    I do not like, "but yet," it does allay
    The good precedence; fie upon "but yet!"
    "But yet" is a gaoler to bring forth
    Some monstrous malefactor.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

23. Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

24. But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd bound in
    To saucy doubts and fears.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

25. Our doubts are traitors,
    And make us lose the good we oft might win
    By fearing to attempt.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

26. No hinge nor loop,
    To hang a doubt on.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

27. To be once in doubt
    Is once to be resolv'd.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

28. Modest doubt is call'd
    The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
    To the bottom of the worst.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

29. There lives more faith in honest doubt,
    Believe me, than in half the creeds.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam
    

30. I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.—W. D. VANDIVER