D Quotes
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“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
Source: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)
“Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.”
“Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.”
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's travels
“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.”
“Doubt destroys more dreams than defeats.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.”
“Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."”
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
“Doubt, fear and helplessness will always try to flourish when we are in a holding pattern for too long. The best defense – is to just do something. Anything positive! Something healthy! Get moving! Get busy! Often, this is the only way to calm the inner storm. Even more often, this is the only way the best course of action will finally find us ready to unveil itself to us.”
“Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. However, if you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Doubt filled her eyes. “What are we betting for, anyway?”
He hadn’t thought about that, but it took his brain all of three seconds to come up with an answer. He knew damn well what he wanted from her. Had for years.
“A kiss.” The words slipped from his lips before he could stop them, but once out, he didn’t want to take them back. “One kiss after you come back and see she’s all right.”
Source: The Playboy's Baby
“Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.”
“Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.”
Source: I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners Into Impolite Society
“Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude”
Source: Beyond Redemption
“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
Source: Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction
“Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree..”
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn—possibly even arrogant—enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.”
Source: Sinew of the Social Species
“Doubt has denied many of their dreams, that is why it should not be given a place to exist.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?”
“Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!”
“Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.”
“Doubt in the mind means thorn in the mind; thorn in the mind means absence of peace in the mind! The solution for the peace of mind is simple: Seek for the truth at any cost and get rid of that thorn!”
“Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.”
Source: Royal Bounty ...
“Doubt is a cancerous mindset that kills dreams before it becomes a reality. It destroys your passion and enthusiasm before you take a step. Kill doubt with faith.”
“Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?”
“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.”
Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
“Doubt is a disease.”
“Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.”
“Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.”
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”
“Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.”
Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard
“Doubt is a liar (and at times a rather convincing one) that would have us believe something less of ourselves so that we are kept from being the best of ourselves.”
“Doubt is a lot like faith; A mustard's seed worth changes everything.”
Source: Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
“Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.”
“Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.”
“Doubt is a one hundred percent trust, in a belief you don't prefer. You are never really actually in doubt. You are always completely trusting in something.”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.”
“Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.”
“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”
“Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”
Source: Killosophy
“Doubt is a rotten seed in the mind that must be cast aside in order to reach the promised land of success.”
“doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct”
“Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.”
“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”
“Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.”