Top 100 Quotes About Doubting
#1. The key to wisdom is this
constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Pierre Abelard
#2. If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
J.G. Holland
#3. To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace.
Sri Chinmoy
#4. She wouldn't," Neal whispered.
"I'm done doubting Melody. It's unhealthy to be proven wrong so many times," Declan whispered back.
J.J. McAvoy
#5. We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." He
Jan Karon
#6. I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
Marcel Duchamp
#7. The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you'll never succeed.
Dannika Dark
#8. I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#9. Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.
Milan Kundera
#10. Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
Ignazio Silone
#11. Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
Ernest Holmes
#12. I walked away, hoping my words would linger after me. The game was over, and they couldn't be left doubting that.
Kiera Cass
#13. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.
Dalai Lama
#14. I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.
Leslie Ludy
#15. Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.
Richard Moss
#16. I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.
Ann Medlock
#17. She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.
Susanna Clarke
#18. It is a question whether he died by his own hand; for he fell from a sudden wound received in his groin, some doubting whether his death was voluntary, no one, whether it was timely. It
Seneca.
#19. Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.
Martin Luther
#21. I ask you to ignore everything you think you know and to listen only to your heart, without doubting anything. Can you do that?
Jessica Park
#22. While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#23. There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.
Anne McCaffrey
#24. Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom ... for by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth ...
Pierre Abelard
#25. What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.
Thomas Huxley
#26. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.
Clementine Von Radics
#27. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
Deepak Chopra
#28. Of a broken warrior. Of a doubting savior.
K.F. Breene
#30. Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Barbara G. Walker
#31. I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Thomas S. Monson
#32. There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
John Bunyan
#33. All serious travelers arrive at this doubting, why-bother juncture, stalling on the road, sometime or other.
Paul Theroux
#34. By ignoring compliments and homages we lead the person paying those compliments to think we look down on him, when in fact we are only doubting ourselves.
Albert Camus
#35. I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#36. We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.
Billy Graham
#37. As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
Adolf Hitler
#38. Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.
Aldo Leopold
#39. You may have gotten into the habit of doubting that voice that was telling you quite clearly what was really going on. It is essential you get that back.
Anne Lamott
#40. We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love " ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#41. To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stanislaus I
#42. Sometimes doubting your first thought, will cost you more for going with your second thought.
Pontius Joseph
#43. You don't know that." He made a face, doubting this. "You don't. You have your whole life ahead of you."
"Maybe," he said. "But even that's not long to be the person she deserves.
Sarah Dessen
#44. No matter how happy you are; start assuming, suspecting and doubting; and make yourself the most unhappy person on the universe.
Suman Pokhrel
#45. The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age ... A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.
Daniel Pipes
#46. Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
Henri Poincare
#47. I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.
Bridgit Mendler
#48. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
James Russell Lowell
#49. Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,
these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.
Herrick Johnson
#50. I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself ... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
Gary Larson
#51. The ruin of the human race came by discrediting and doubting God's word to our first parents. "Hath God said?" was the fountain of all sin. "God hath said" is the foundation, therefore, of our restoration.
A.B. Simpson
#52. Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?
Michael Jackson
#53. God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment.
Mary Baker Eddy
#54. There are so many ways to account for negative outcomes that it is safer to doubt one's methods before doubting one's subjects.
Frans De Waal
#55. I am doubting what to do.
Horace
#56. The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later ...
Czeslaw Milosz
#57. I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.
Brad Schneider
#58. Don't kill the Genius in you by doubting your abilities to create impact in the world.
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#59. Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.
Paulo Coelho
#60. What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
John Bunyan
#61. All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
Patrick DeWitt
#62. I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.
Michael Owen
#63. People fail, everything fails, the magic we're born believing in and working for and then doubting and finally fearing eventually rusts, rots, fades, breaks down, withers, dies, and turns to dust, and for me the response is always the same. I clean up. It's what I do and
Patricia Cornwell
#64. Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
Emily Bronte
#65. Yo, back in the day, I was bad boned. I was tough, ok? Rugged. People feared me," Cain said.
"I'm sure they did."
"Are you doubting my mad badness?
Shelly Crane
#66. Only surrendered Christians will make an impact on our world. The world does not need any more lukewarm Christians, or lazy Christians, or quarrelsome Christians, or doubting Christians, or prideful Christians.
Billy Graham
#67. It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.
Melissa Bank
#68. It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering - only expensive - blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
Nikola Tesla
#69. Maybe
maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure
never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
John Steinbeck
#70. To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
Sheldon Vanauken
#71. As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.
James Marsden
#72. There's no value in doubting yourself. Accept your brilliance.
Mo Ali
#73. Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken
Shakti Gawain
#74. At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
Henry Green
#75. Sometime you have to stop worrying, wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned, but just how it's meant to be.
Drake
#76. The real question isn't "Why aren't you strong enough?" It's "Why do you keep doubting that you already are?
Linda Francis Lee
#77. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.
Maureen Dowd
#78. Don't doubt, don't stop ... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.
Ronda Rousey
#79. The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive.
J.P. Delaney
#81. You might get clever and say, "My doubting God's existence was willed by God." Only half true. You also chose to doubt.
Rumi
#82. This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart.
Sri Chinmoy
#83. When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.
Paulo Coelho
#84. Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.
Dale Carnegie
#85. By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
Peter Abelard
#86. A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh
#87. It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Peter Abelard
#89. I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
Giordano Bruno
#90. For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?
David W. Earle
#91. Doubting everything is a sign of wisdom; speaking your doubts is mere stupidity.
Majid Kazmi
#92. "Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.
Tim Noakes
#94. Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
Hugh Prather
#95. I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
Carl Yastrzemski
#96. For the love of everything evil," Satan yelled and threw his hands in the air. "What's this crap about everyone doubting me? This is not good for my ego. I'm the fucking Devil - the King
Robyn Peterman
#97. Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#98. When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
Gus Van Sant
#99. Science depends on organized skepticism, that is, on continual, methodical doubting. Few of us doubt our own conclusions, so science embraces its skeptical approach by rewarding those who doubt someone else's.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
