Home / Topics / Doubt Quotes

Doubt Quotes

Browse 5874 quotes about Doubt.

Doubt Quotes

“There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.”

Ifs Philosophy Helping Ability Doubt Succeed

Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy

“At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.”

Source: Selected essays

“I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Suffering Common Doubt Fate Easier Succeed Misery Unhappiness Hysterical

Author:Sigmund Freud

“We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.”

“The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.”

Ifs Wells Done Doubt Succeed Conscience Philosopher Genuine Well Done

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed.”

Thinking Doubt Failing Victory Succeed

Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.”

Life Science Doubt Succeed

Author:Leo Errera

“Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.”

Success Doubt Succeed

Author:Leo Errera