D Quotes
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“Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.”
“Doubt is all that is needed to undo anything.”
“Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.”
“Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.”
Source: Church policy: a speech delivered by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. at a meeting of the Oxford Diocesan Society for the Augmentation of Small Livings, in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Nov. 25, 1864, etc
“Doubt is an insult to God's character and track record.”
“Doubt is an old disease.
Faith is an old medicine.
Compassion is an old doctor.
Concern is an old nurse.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.”
Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)
“Doubt is an unwillingness to communicate.”
“Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.”
Source: Watchwords
“Doubt is but another element of faith.”
“Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.”
“Doubt is crucial in science—in the version we call curiosity or healthy skepticism, it drives science forward—but it also makes science vulnerable to misrepresentation, because it is easy to take uncertainties out of context and create the impression that everything is unresolved. This was the tobacco industry's key insight: that you could use normal scientific uncertainty to undermine the status of actual scientific knowledge."
...Individual clinicians cannot single-handedly combat this kind of antiscience, a climate that has only been fostered by some political and religious leaders and by the social media. But at the very least, we can make our patients aware of the forces at play and the mind games that such merchants of doubt employ.”
Source: The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine: Leveraging Innovation, Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles of mHealth
“Doubt is dangerous.”
“Doubt is delusion.”
“Doubt is double-minded.”
“Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt;
We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Doubt is faith's shadow.”
“Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Doubt is just a sign you're thinking critically, and that's always a good thing.”
“Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.”
“Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.”
“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”
“Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
Source: Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”
“Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
“Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.”
Source: 22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters
“Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.”
“Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
“Doubt is not the shadow that appears when faith is absent. It is the shadow that appears when faith is reaching for more light.”
Source: THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY
“Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.”
“Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.”
“Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.”
“Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.”
Source: Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life
“Doubt is one of the most dangerous negative vibrations and can ruin the materialization process.”
Source: Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
“Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.”
“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
“Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”
Source: Just One Year
“Doubt is part of the human drama. But don't let it consume you-let it motivate you.”
“Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.”
Source: Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel
“Doubt is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. Once you rise above doubt, you are on your way to success.”
“Doubt is really a groping ignorance.”
Source: The Great Secret or Occultism Unveiled
“Doubt is the act of challenging our beliefs. . . . This is an active, investigative doubt: the kind that inspires us to wander onto shaky limbs or out into left field; the kind that doesn't divide the mind so much as multiply it, like a tree in which there are three blackbirds and the entire Bronx Zoo. This is the doubt we stand to sacrifice if we can't embrace error—the doubt of curiosity, possibility, and wonder.”
Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.”
Source: Sacred Hunger
“Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Doubt is the beginning of wisdom”