Quotes About Doubt

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.

I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical

I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

I'm from Missouri; you must show me.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.