D Quotes
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“Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.”
“Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.”
“Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment”
“Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.”
“Doubt the people who never disagrees or differs with your decisions or views. You can't always be right at all times.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
“Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.”
“Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.”
Source: Wicked
“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
“Doubt will creep in. Life will interfere at times, whether that means distractions, financial obligations, or health detours. Yet, in each of these situations you can learn skills and disciplines that can serve as steppingstones. They might not make sense now, but each one can offer something valuable for the next season.”
Source: Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life's Crossroads
“Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.”
Source: Selected poems
“Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.”
“Doubt would hold us hostage to the belief that we are a pathetic compilation of inadequacies. Yet such thoughts are nothing more than the fiction of our fear.”
“Doubt you’d find anyone as dashingly charming as me”
Source: I'm Kita Duran
“Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.”
“Doubt Your Doubts Before You Doubt Yourself!”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.”
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
Source: Memoirs of a Madman
“Doubt, but still hate!”
“Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.”
“Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you,
Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.”
“Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.”
“Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
“Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.”
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.”
Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
“Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.”
“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical change. You start feeling new responsibilities--not as some thing to be done, not as a duty to be fulfilled, but as a joy to do.”
“Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.”
“Doubters will doubt to the end.”
Source: The Mist
“Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)
“Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit and your lips press together and ---" "Do you have a pen?" she asked him. "You're kidding, right?" He brought out Riptide. "Yes, but can you actually write with it?" "I--I don't know," he admitted. "Never tried.”
“Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.”
“Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“Doubting pleases me no less than knowing”
Source: The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.
“Doubting things go ill often hurts more
Than to be sure they do; for certainties
Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
The remedy then born.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.”
“Doubting your judgments is the beginning of enlightenment.”
“Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.”
“Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.”
Source: Adam Bede
“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”
“Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did”
“Doubtless our lives are solitary but also the inverse.”
“Doubtless Princess Juliana intended for me to overhear her comment on seeing Theodora in wedding regalia. “She’s like wisteria: beautiful in a vulgarly decorative way, cloyingly scented and an unstoppable climber.” Her eyes met mine and she made a motion as if scribbling in the air, daring me to write down her words.”
Source: The Eagle and the Swan
“Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Doubtless the biggest Triumph of a Human: to create something that outlasts Humanity.”