D Quotes
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“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”
Source: Canadian Stories
“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”
Source: Big Machine
“Doubt is the brother of shame.”
Source: Identity Youth and Crisis
“Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.”
“Doubt is the end of desire.”
“Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.”
Source: Creating a Role
“Doubt is the enemy of success.”
“Doubt is the father of invention.”
“Doubt is the first ray of illumination”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.”
“Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.”
“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
“Doubt is the killer of dreams only because we give it license to kill.”
“Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.”
“Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.”
Source: The Courage To Be
“Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.”
Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
“doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time”
“Doubt is the shadow of truth.”
“Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.”
“Doubt is the thing that'll kill you, the only thing, and it'll kill your friends, too.”
Source: Beaufort
“Doubt is the vestibule of faith.”
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”
Source: The second sin
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
“Doubt is unnecessary; do not carry it. Faith is necessary; it carries you.”
“Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.”
Source: Gone: Poems
“Doubt isn't original.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Believe in yourself. Never quit.”
Source: The Pale-Faced Lie
“Doubt leads to disobedient.”
“Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.”
“Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Doubt may knock, but belief opens the door to endless possibilities.”
“Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“Doubt means you're human - congratulations! It's natural to have these feelings, and if anything makes you humble, just don't be ruled by those emotions.”
“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.”
“Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.”
Source: The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:
“Doubt not Hell. Delight in Heaven.”
“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.”
Source: The Film Testament
“Doubt not your purpose nor your strength.”
Source: The Prisoners of Time
“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.”
“Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.”
Source: Eyes, etc: a memoir
“Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.”
“doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.”
“Doubt tempers belief with sanity.”
Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances