Quotes About Doubt

And blanket skepticism can lead one as far astray as blanket credibility can.

Things are seldom what they seem.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Fish not, with this melancholy bait,For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,To follow still the changes of the moonWith fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubtIs once to be resolved.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."

He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitableSeem to me all the uses of this world.

Modest doubt is call'dThe beacon of the wise, the tent that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in blissWho, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;But, O! what damned minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves!

Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life,A sable silver'd.

How all the other passions fleet to air,As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac'd despair,And shuddering fear, and green-ey'd jealousy.

It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

And to be kingStands not within the prospect of belief.

Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

All is not well;I doubt some foul play.

I am Thane of Cawdor:If good, why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hairAnd make my seated heart knock at my ribs,Against the use of nature? Present fearsAre less than horrible imaginings.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt love

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

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.