Quotes About Doubt

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

Man, sometimes God really sucks.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.