Top 31 Quotes About Doubter
#1. [G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .
Cesare Lombroso
#2. See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
Ramana Maharshi
#3. The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
Soren Kierkegaard
#7. The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,
but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.
Toba Beta
#9. I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind.
Octavia E. Butler
#10. Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences [ ... ] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.
Terryl L. Givens
#11. The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heard
by listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.
Toba Beta
#12. Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.
Kit Harington
#15. When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; ... despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, ... I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.
Elmina Drake Slenker
#16. Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.
Toba Beta
#17. The doubter's doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular age.
James K.A. Smith
#18. The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
Claude Bernard
#19. Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.
Adam P. Knave
#20. My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.
Dwyane Wade
#21. Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.
Thomas H. Cook
#22. Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka
#23. Unless you're a doubter and a worrier, a nail-biter, an apologizer, a rethinker, then memoir may not be your playpen. That's the quality I've found most consistently in those life-story writers I've met.
Mary Karr
#24. I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
Luther Burbank
#25. Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#26. Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.
Richard Watson Gilder
#27. An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
Clarence Darrow
#28. I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
William James
#29. Think of King Jesus as our greatest doubter. Who saw the order of society and taught us to defy it. Who saw the ugly urges in ourselves and taught us to resist them. As we navigate through the powerful tides, doubt is our rudder.
Victor LaValle
#30. A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
Oswald Chambers
#31. Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
