Home / Topics / Doubt Quotes

Doubt Quotes

Browse 5874 quotes about Doubt.

Doubt Quotes

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.”

Mind Said Doubt Bears Sorrow Spring Genuine Hypocrisy Peace Of Mind Piety

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.”

Mind States Wish Doubt Spring Deny State Of Mind Refuge Ridicule Wretched

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.”

Ifs Children Character Felt Support Doubt Streets Childhood Couple Spring Towns Our Family No Doubt Flaws Jersey Payment New Jersey Love Of Money Character Flaws I Love Money

Author:Michael Ian Black

“Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.”

Mind Soul Doubt Spring Daughter

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really lost. But it would be no bad thing if the feeling that swept the country then were to continue to inspire us. For if there was any doubt about the determination of the British people it was removed by the men and women who, a few months ago, brought a renewed sense of pride and self-respect to our country.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.”

Ifs Mind Said States Light Wish Doubt Spring Draws Tests Deny State Of Mind Deceiving Refuge Curtains Ridicule Wretched Sneer

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon