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If you really want to do, be or have anything, then first destroy your greatest enemy 'doubt’. The manifestation of your desire is directly proportional to how much you believe.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
Many have doubts
—  few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all.
[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.
— Robert Silverberg, Tower of Glass
They think I make God angry. I hate that they think this. I hate them for thinking it. Why would you decide to worship an angry God anyway?
— Anonymous
If it makes God so freaking mad, why does it feel so good?
— Anonymous, The Book of David
It is an indication of truth's jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it has not deprived anyone of the hope of attaining it, and it has left people running in the deserts of perplexity and drowning in the seas of doubt; and he who thinks he has attained it, it dissociates itself from, and he who thinks he has dissociated himself from it has lost his way.
— Naguib Mahfouz
It was the irrational doubt which springs from the isolation and powerlessness of an individual whose attitude toward the world is one of anxiety and hatred. This irrational doubt can never be cured by rational answers
—  it can only disappear if the individual becomes and integral part of a meaningful world.
However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez (1986), director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician and counselor to be willing to be made a fool." In other words, it is better that you believe a client who is lying or distorting the truth than to disbelieve a hurting trauma survivor who may never seek help again if your attitude is one of disbelief or disdain. Even if that client were to continue in therapy, they would never fully trust you.
— Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.
— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
There isn't doubt about that, everyone dies.
— Deyth Banger
And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.
— Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil
She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts
— S.M. Hulse, Black River
Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt
— C.G. Jung
It is ok to question yourself, but never ok to doubt yourself.
— Jeffrey Fry
I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.
— Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten
To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.
— Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.
— Katherine J. Walden, Dare to Call Him Friend
I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.
— Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.
— Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
The reader who is only superficially familiar with Caribbean affairs may find the materials of this volume strange. The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life of the region may cause surprise. The incongruous and rather unreal quality of many events, whether fanciful or farcical in appearance, may also prove unexpected. If the reader is inclined to doubt the authenticity of certain events, viewing them as too implausible to be true, he may be assured that many things even more strange, which are possibly and even probably true, have been omitted because their accuracy could not be satisfactorily established. Nothing is included here that does not come from sources considered sound. Nothing is included that has not been subjected to every possible verification.
— Robert D. Crassweller
Who am I??I doubt that Hitler Suicided, you here me right!I doubt that JFK was killed without a reason it's not a coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences, there is a reason I'm sure.I doubt about my father suicided!
— Deyth Banger
Seeds of doubt, once planted, will grow.
— Lesley Lokko, Little White Lies
Doubt is our greatest barrier
— Hiba Fatima Ahmad
Love dissolves all fear, eliminates all doubt, and transforms all evil.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.
— Deepak Chopra
Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.
— Mary Karr
Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
There is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent about standing in this hurricane of questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust it takes to whisper just one of them out loud
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Today she feels she is the master of her craft. Today she is free of the grinding tyranny of doubt. The voice that mocks her ambition. The voice that bites and slanders and causes her more heartache than any other voice. Today she is focused, she is exultant. Her every brushstroke like a wake of radiance. Today she can move the paint around the canvas at will. If only painting were like this every day. Without the sudden extinguishing of light, the collapsing of belief, the cursing and flailing, the knots and clenched fists in a world gone suddenly dark.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Way Back to Florence
When in doubt, know your way out, I always say.""I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'""Well, yeah, that too.""I don't think those are very practical solutions to doubt," Oberon said. "They don't leave you feeling satisfied. 'When in doubt, eat your neighbor's lunch' is better, because then you would at least be full.
— Kevin Hearne, Trapped
Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
— Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing
Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.
— Rachel Held Evans
Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.
— Leviak B. Kelly, The Leprechaun Delusion
Conversion isn't, after all, a moment: It's a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt.
— Sara Miles
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know it. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
The key to wisdom is doubt!
— Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums
What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong.
— Ameya Agrawal
do you dare to step in-to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and weeping moon steps from the shade of a tumult of mountains – when, in the fragrant dim, day's tree stump transformsinto some nether-worldly other – when time's skin is thin and you arebared – when there is nothing between you and the Wildest Onewhose name is your own?
— Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.
— Harley King
What agony he suffered as he watched that light, in whose golden atmosphere were moving, behind the closed sash, the unseen and detested pair, as he listened to that murmur which revealed the presence of the man who had crept in after his own departure, the perfidy of Odette, and the pleasures which she was at that moment tasting with the stranger. And yet he was not sorry that he had come; the torment which had forced him to leave his own house had lost its sharpness when it lost its uncertainty, now that Odette's other life, of which he had had, at that first moment, a sudden helpless suspicion, was definitely there, almost within his grasp, before his eyes, in the full glare of the lamp-light, caught and kept there, an unwitting prisoner, in that room into which, when he would, he might force his way to surprise and seize it; or rather he would tap upon the shutters, as he had often done when he had come there very late, and by that signal Odette would at least learn that he knew, that he had seen the light and had heard the voices; while he himself, who a moment ago had been picturing her as laughing at him, as sharing with that other the knowledge of how effectively he had been tricked, now it was he that saw them, confident and persistent in their error, tricked and trapped by none other than himself, whom they believed to be a mile away, but who was there, in person, there with a plan, there with the knowledge that he was going, in another minute, to tap upon the shutter. And, perhaps, what he felt (almost an agreeable feeling) at that moment was something more than relief at the solution of a doubt, at the soothing of a pain; was an intellectual pleasure.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Doubt was a giant-sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in nothing more than destroying Hope. And Hope, being immortal, lived out its days with blithe indifference to its regular obliteration. Neither cared at all about the suffering they caused: Doubt because it enjoyed suffering; Hope because it was too stupid to recognize it.
— Sean DeLauder, The Least Envied
Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.
— Raheel Farooq
If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt.
— Robert J. Braathe
Doubts are good. It means you are alive and searching. One does not become a believer overnight. He thinks he is a believer; then something happens in his life and he becomes an unbeliever, after that, he becomes a believer again and then an unbeliever again, and so on. Until we reach a certain stage, we constantly waver. This is the only way forward. At each new step, we come closer to the Truth.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)
— Lauren F. Winner
If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You do not want to live in a country ruled by people who never have any doubts. To have doubts is human. A horse has no doubts, a grasshopper has no doubts, an ant has no doubts. But a human being stops to think sometimes, and when he thinks, he hears a voice asking quietly, 'Are you certain that you are right? You must be certain before you pull that trigger. You must be certain before you put your knife to that man's throat.'Would God have given us the power to question if he wanted us to behave like grasshoppers and ants? I am sure God takes pleasure in all the creatures of the world, but I am also sure that his greatest pleasure is a human being who puts his knife away because he is not sure, because a doubt has come into his mind.
— Najaf Mazari, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
You will all be assailed, my dear friends, by the very real temptation to believe that you have been forsaken by God – that your priesthood is in vain, and that the weight of mortal grief and sin is more than you can bear. In the midst of your anguish you will ask of Him a sign, some visible ray of His unchanging light in a world of hideous darkness. I am sorry to say that this visible sign will rarely be given. The burning bush of Moses, the jewel-encrusted dove of Theresa, the Tolle lege of Augustine – these are no longer the style, as in the simpler days of saint and prophet. The light will be interior; you must look for it within
— Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal
Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack.Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style.Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too.
— Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
INDECISION NOW!' isn’t a battle cry that’s going to rouse anybody’s blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the sanest one.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage
...I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find.
— Kira Salak, Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it’s so important. I’ve wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage
The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.
— Gerhard Casper
A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.
— Auliq Ice
No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it.
— Auliq Ice
Al he knew was that he'd never met anyone who caused him to doubt and to hope as much as she did.
— Catherine  Bennett, Devon's Choice
Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.
— Ron Brackin
Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.
— Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber because you are worried that your face is a blob of rubber.This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn’t see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.
— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
You see, doubt is a magnificently difficult pest of which to try and rid oneself and is worse than any other kind of infestation. It can creep in quietly and through the tiniest of cracks and once inside, it is almost impossible to ever completely remove.
— Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist
What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly naked, and more questionable aspect. The contraction of man's horizons amounts to a denudation, a stripping down, of this being who has now to confront himself at the center of all his horizons. The labor of modern culture, whenever it has been authentic, has been a labor of denudation. A return to the sources; "to the things themselves," as Husserl puts it; toward a new truthfulness, the casting away of ready-made presuppositions and empty forms - these are some of the slogans under which this phase in history has presented itself. Naturally enough, much of this stripping down must appear as the work of destruction, as revolutionary or even "negative": a being who has become thoroughly questionable to himself must also find questionable his relation to the total past which in a sense he represents.
— William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Your haters may stage fake games that they know you cannot win so that you may fail and put that blame on you and in turn doubt yourself.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Faith and Doubt cannot reside in the same place; as soon as you have a glimmer of doubt, no matter how much you do, feel, vibrate, and affirm, you are showing the Universe that you do not really believe, you are just ‘trying’ out the concept.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think of a Blue Ball
You may doubt others but you can be sure to yourself.
— gnalluap
They say in Zen, waking up to life requires three things: great faith, great doubt, and great effort. Faith isn’t a way of going to sleep. It’s the work of waking up. And, in order to wake up, you’ll need both great faith and great doubt. In itself, doubt is neither good nor bad. Its value depends on what you do with it. You can doubt what’s real in order to stay asleep or you can doubt your daydreams in order to wake up. You can use doubt to protect you from the truth or you can use doubt to leave you vulnerable to it. You’ll have doubts regardless. Repurpose them for the sake of faith. Saving doubt is a strong solvent that can burn holes in your [worldview] and lead you back to the work of being faithful to life and, thus, to God. Practicing doubt for the sake of faith is hard work and it demands great effort. Great faith, great doubt, great effort.
— Adam S. Miller
When at a crossroads, my father was fond of saying “go with your gut.” “Intuition,” he said, “always has our best interests at heart.” It is a voice that can tell us who is friend and who is foe…Which ones to hold at arm’s length…And which ones to keep close. But too often, we become distracted by fear, doubt, our own stubborn hopes, and refuse to listen.
— Emily Thorne
You know, without a doubt, that surrender is the only option to fulfill whatever you are attempting.
— Jean Hamilton-Fford, Play.Create.Succeed.
Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
— Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now avoided talking or thinking about it. Thinking about it led him into doubts and prevented him from seeing what he should and should not do. But when he did not think, but just lived, he unceasingly felt in his soul the presence of an infallible judge deciding which of two actions was the better and which the worse; and as soon as he did what he should not have done he immediately felt this. In this way he lived, not knowing or seeing any possibility of knowing what he was or why he lived in the world.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.
— Douglas John Hall, The Cross in Our Context
Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.
— Multatuli, Ideeën
I would rather be part of a show that aims for best ever and comes in 2nd than aims for mediocrity and achieves his goal.” – Joshua Jackson (about Fringe TV series)
— Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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
Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but only hate covers that causes evil deeds.
— Lendon
I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but hate covers that causes evil deeds.
— Lendon
[48]	- 4Dispelling fear but knowledge be,Replacing our doubts completely,Nothing need be feared undoubtedly,But must be comprehended absolutely.[49]	- 4
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'.'What?''Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery.A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error,for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false.Let no man fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it;for doubt is a testing of belief.The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing;For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure.He that would silence doubt is filled with fear;the house of his spirit is built on shifting sands.But he that fears no doubt, and knows its use, is founded on a rock.He shall walk in the light of growing knowledge;the work of his hands shall endure.Therefore let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help:It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
— Robert T. Weston
Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte.
— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised
I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.
— Eduardo Souto de Moura
Perhaps I really was disillusioned; unable to see myself for who, and what, I really was. Maybe I really was an ungrateful wretch who just refused to take responsibility for my own actions. Maybe I was lying to myself because I didn’t want to admit to being a bad person. Maybe…
— J.M. Northup, A Prisoner Within
In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds that blow From the desolate shores of doubt,­­ When the anchors that faith had cast Are dragging in the gale, I am quietly holding fast To the things that cannot fail: In the darkest night of the year,  When the stars have all gone out,  That courage is better than fear,  That faith is truer than doubt; And fierce though the fiends may fight,  And long though the angels hide, I know that Truth and Right Have the universe on their side; And somewhere, beyond the stars, Is a Love that is better than fate; When the night unlocks her bars I shall see Him, and I will wait
— Washington Gladden
Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions. They are an abundant excess, a luxury of life, and they appear more at the summits of happiness, when you have no crude desires. They are not born in the midst of mundanity. They have no place where there is grief and want. The masses go along without knowing the fog of doubts or the anguish of questions. But for anyone who has encountered them at the right time they are dear visitors, not a hammer.''But there's no coping with them. They bring anguish and indifference to nearly everything.' she added indecisively.'But for how long? Afterward they refresh life,' he said. 'They lead to an abyss from which nothing can be gained, and they force you to look again at life, with even greater love. They summon up your tested powers to struggle with it, as if expressly to let them sleep afterward.''This fog and these specters torment me!' she complained. 'Everything is bright and all of a sudden a sinister shadow is cast over life! Are there no means against this?''What do you mean? Your buttress is in life! Without it, life is sickening, even without any questions!'p. 508
— Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.
— Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
Sometimes, all that is required of us is to come to a decision, a decision which would determine our course thereafter, which is sudden, which is made in an instant and not out of introspection. Because the more we happen to brood, the more we burden the mind, with doubt with dilemma, whether to or whether not to.Sometimes it is this decision that furnishes to be the highlight of our lives, it may cause us to diverge from our paths and lead us to new ones or narrow down our destinations altogether, either way it cherishes significance.
— Chirag Tulsiani
Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt
—  while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
— Andreas Vesalius, Vesalius: The China Root Epistle: A New Translation and Critical Edition
Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare
If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.
— C.L. Stone, Drop of Doubt
Guilt is never to be doubted.
— Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony
They have not forgotten the Mysteries,” she said, “they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.” Lancelet smiled bitterly. “Perhaps a religion which demands that every man must work through lifetime after lifetime for his own salvation is too much for mankind. They want not to wait for God’s justice, but to see it now. And that is the lure which this new breed of priests has promised them.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?
— Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God’s goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh heh heh . . .
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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, Moonwalk
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.
— Joseph Brodsky
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
— Victor LaValle, Big Machine
Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound and fill you with a sense of peace, even if it’s temporary.
— Andrea Michelle, Escape the Doubt
I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.
— William Beaumont, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice: and the Physiology of Digestion
Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth (be it of either kind), we do so with our whole nature, and resolve to stand or fall by the results. The sceptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser, Omniscience only knows.
— William James, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.
— Hans Selye, From Dream To Discovery: On Being A Scientist
What you believe might be wrong
—  what you don’t believe might be right! Don’t be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!
Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men...(The Everlasting No)
— Thomas Carlyle
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
— Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked
In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was "holding out on her" and that she would be better off not listening to Him.
— Marian Jordan Ellis, Sex and the Single Christian Girl: Fighting for Purity in a Rom-Com World
Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that—feelings—and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them.
— Russell Blackford
So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?
— Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds of Naked
As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.
— Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis
What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness that you may one day come to suspect the truth of that moment at all. The calling that seemed so clear will be lost in echoes of questionings and indecision; the church that seemed to save you will fester with egos, complacencies, banalities; the deepest love of your life will work itself like a thorn in your heart until all you can think of is plucking it out. Wisdom is accepting the truth of this. Courage is persisting with life in spite of it. And faith is finding yourself, in the deepest part of your soul, in the very heart of who you are, moved to praise it.
— Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at least one truth, so that his very capacity to doubt should convince him that there is such a thing as truth.
— Frederick Charles Copleston
You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.
— Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
— Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, full of unknowns, asking questions but raising possibilities.
— Florian Armas, Io Deceneus: Journal of a Time Traveler
I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.
— Arthur Nersesian, Dogrun
Don't let doubt steal your dreams.
— Lynne St. James
For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.
— C.S. Lewis, Seeing Eye and Other Selected Essays from Christian Reflections
I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.
— Regina O'Melveny, The Book of Madness and Cures
Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt.
— Pen, 9.5b
Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.
— Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.
— Franz Wright
She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised, precise sentences so that she is not misunderstood. She chooses her words carefully, and if someone addresses her in Punjabi, she answers in Urdu, because an exchange in her mother tongue might be considered a promise of intimacy. She uses English for medical terms only, because she feels if she uses a word of English in her conversation she might be considered a bit forward. When she walks she walks with slightly hurried steps, as if she has an important but innocent appointment to keep. She avoids eye contact, she looks slightly over people’s heads as if looking out for somebody who might come into view at any moment. She doesn’t want anyone to think that she is alone and nobody is coming for her. She sidesteps even when she sees a boy half her age walking towards her, she walks around little puddles when she can easily leap over them; she thinks any act that involves stretching her legs might send the wrong signal. After all, this is not the kind of thing where you can leave your actions to subjective interpretations. She never eats in public. Putting something in your mouth is surely an invitation for someone to shove something horrible down your throat. If you show your hunger, you are obviously asking for something.
— Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.
— Laurence Cossé, A Novel Bookstore
And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will experience times of doubt. Everyone dangles on a pendulum that swings from belief to unbelief, back to belief, and ends - where?
— Philip Yancey
Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded were its eyes - Mr. Thornton, instead of being shocked, seemed to have through that very stage of thought himself, and could suggest where the exact ray of light was to be found, which should make the dark places plain. Man of action as he was, busy in the world's great battle, there was a deeper religion binding him to God in his heart, in spite of his strong willfulness, through all his mistakes, than Mr. Hale ever dreamed.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up."What do I have to do?" he says."Nothing," I say. "They're for you.""Are they poisoned?" he says."No," I say."Eat one," he says.So I do."Probably the others are poisoned," he says. "Eat a fraction of each."I eat a corner off each biscuit. He looks at the reminders suspiciously, then sniffs them."I'm not sure it's worth it," he says. "How I wish you'd never come. Perhaps you've left the poison off of just those corners."I begin to realize I'll doubt whatever information he gives me."Lick the entire biscuit," he says. "Then give them to me."So I lick each biscuit."Both sides," he says.I lick both sides of each biscuit. I give him the wet biscuits and he cracks them open and sniffs them. Then he puts them in his pocket. "What do you want?" he says. "Now that you've failed to poison me to death.
— George Saunders, Pastoralia
You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.
— D.E.M. Emrys
I believe in saints as I believe in sanctity. I believe in miracles as I believe in God, who can suspend the laws of His own making. But I believe, too, that the hand of God writes plainly and simply, for all men of good will to read. I am doubtful of His presence in confusion and conflicting voices.
— Morris West, The Devil's Advocate
Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.
— The Band Perry
Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.
— Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.
— Kenneth de Guzman
He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs.
— H.L. Mencken, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.
— G.K. Chesterton
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
— Candace Bushnell, Summer and the City
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.
— John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
We cannot separate doubt from deception. Doubt robs a man of his confidence; it is a fearful thing. Offer him deception to restore that confidence and he will embrace the falsehood for the comfort it brings. If you would deceive, begin with doubt.
— D.A. Blankinship, The Scoloderus Conspiracy
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, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
— Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy
—  and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
— Michelle Madow, Timeless
I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.
— Ally Condie, Reached
He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.
— Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah
Dreaming is risky. While only some dreams can put you at physical risk, all dreams require that you take an emotional risk. By their nature, dreams create a gap between your present reality and the reality you want to have, causing you to question whether you can bridge that gap. This risk alone can be so daunting for people that they prefer to leave their dreams in their childhood or buried away beneath layers of fear, doubt, and resignation. That’s why dreaming bigger dreams takes courage; it means risking the possibility that your dreams will not come true.
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.
— Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
Don’t you ever get scared?” I ask.“Of what?” She says.“Of not being good enough.”“You mean at writing?” L’il asks.I nod. “What if I’m the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I’m fooling myself-““Oh, Carrie.” She smiles. “Don’t you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.
— Candace Bushnell, Summer and the City
I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.
— David Millar, Racing Through the Dark
What are men? Children who doubt.
— Derek Walcott, The Odyssey
Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
— Josephine Humphreys, The Fireman's Fair
I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
If you fill your mind with wonderful thoughts, there can be no room left for doubt.
— Silvia Hartmann
Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.
— John Donne
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
— Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita