Doubt Quotes

• When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Successful

• If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

  

  Erich von Däniken
  • Doubt
  • Supposed
  • Accepted

• There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Question
  • Doubt

• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  

  Cecil O. Samuelson
  • Attention
  • Responsibility
  • Effort

• When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Problem
  • Progress
  • Ignorance

• A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Progress
  • Certain
  • Scientist

• I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mean

• I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Doubt
  • Mystery
  • Self-Sacrificing

• There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Decision

• When we feed our faith, we starve our doubts.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

  

  David Jason
  • Joy
  • Years
  • Careers

• We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Learning
  • Needs
  • Knows

• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Doubt
  • Difference

• Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Chance
  • Dreams

• You give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Doubt
  • Deserve
  • Benefit

• Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Teach
  • Judgment
  • Evidence

• We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Progress
  • Rooms

• Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Passion

• And then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Doubt
  • Word

• All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.

  

  Esai Morales
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Starts

• Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.

  

  Nora Gallagher
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.

  

  William Attwood
  • Relation
  • Negotiation
  • Assassination

• Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Quality
  • Ignorance
  • Belief

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