2,035 Quotes About Doubt

Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.

There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong.

Do not be decieved by doubt.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Doubt is a form of radical relationship to and respect for mystery. The absence of doubt is a very scary thing. What that leads to is psychological, political, economic, spiritual fundamentalism. It leads to rigidity. It leads to a profound defense of the ego's security needs above all things [...]The absence of doubt ultimately leads to a violation of the mystery itself.

...theism is an addiction. We're all addicted to hope - hope that the doubt and mystery will go away.

Shall I believe in a man yet doubt my Maker? No this ought not to be so.

They will say your doubts shed innocent blood. But I say - what's blood for, if not for shedding?