Quotes on doubt

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Bram Stoker

“The doubters said, Man can not fly, The doers said, Maybe, but we'll try, And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.”

Bruce Lee

“Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.”

Roy T. Bennett

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”

Paula Hawkins

“Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?”

David Sedaris

“Dubium sapientiae initium. (.)”

Rene Descartes

“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.”

Leszek Kolakowski

“Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.”

Kilroy J. Oldster

“Fear nothing but your conscience.”

Suzy Kassem

“Complain to God, just don’t let him go. God is okay about us complaining to him. This is way better than just complaining about God. Do you see the difference?”

Brenda Seefeldt Amodea

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

René Descartes

“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”

Criss Jami

“Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.”

Criss Jami

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

Patrick Rothfuss

“Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

André Gide

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

J.M. Coetzee

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Alex Harris

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, and soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Alexander Pope

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

To be human is to be in doubt perpetually. To go forward is to be in constant curiosity.

Breyten Breytenbach

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

The only thing that holds us back is fear and doubt.

Ruby Dee

The greatest obstacle to realizing your potential is your own doubt.

Milarepa

Skepticism is an exercise in defascination.

Emile M. Cioran

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

André Gide

There will come a day when you are sitting across from him as he is eating his breakfast and all you will think is 'why.'

Lyssa Kay Adams

I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn’t one of those rare instances.

Sherry Thomas

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

John C. Maxwell

You can’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.

Kouta Hirano

Faith is not the suppression of doubt. It is the overcoming of doubt.

Romain Rolland

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Steven Pressfield

The worst part of emotional abuse is that it teaches you to distrust your own feelings.

Shannon Thomas

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Ben Sweetland