Home / Topics / Doubt Quotes

Doubt Quotes

Browse 5874 quotes about Doubt.

Doubt Quotes

“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”

Heart Soul Suffering Poor Doubt Saws Pieces Cry Creatures Brave Noble No Doubt Vessel Tempest Shipwreck Gonzalo From Tempest

Author:William Shakespeare

“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.”

Reality Would Be Poor Doubt Inspire Gay Illusion Mere Terror Vain Reality Of Life Fancy Charm No Doubt Idle Bosoms Flattering Hue

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.”

Humans Government Evil Poor Successful Doubt Subjects Institutions Tyranny Attributes Distress Supporter Iniquity

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.”

Ifs Government Would Be Order Strong Poor Liberty Democracy Rich Doubt Effects Military Property Democratic Saved Smallest Civilisation Plunder Democratic Government

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

Ifs Men Mind May Light Lying Imagination Pleasure Poor Numbers Opinion Taken Doubt Add Vain Melancholy Diamond Pearls Mixtures Flattering Valuation

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.”

Children Doe Poor Poverty Doubt Benefits Privilege Powerless Inmates Benefit Of The Doubt

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school. Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we consider the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are stupid need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But in reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless, curious, and pernicious.”