Quotes About Doubt

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

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.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.