Doubt

Doubt, it seems to me,
is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
-Salman Rushdie
 
Doubt is the opposite of belief.
-Christian Bovee
 
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass
before they enter the temple of wisdom.
-Charles Caleb Colton
 
Doubt must be no more than vigilance,
otherwise it can become dangerous.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
 
When seeds of doubt are planted, don’t water them.
-Anonymous
 
Doubt is like a little germ
which gets lodged in the heart
and infects the whole being.
-Paramananda
 
Doubt is the mind's persistent assailant.
-Aurobindo Ghose
 
My mind was full
of the misty fumes of doubt.
-Zora Neale Hurston
 
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know
that faith is his twin brother.
-Kahlil Gibran
 
The supreme fall of falls is this,
the first doubt of one's self.
-Catharine Boissier, Comtesse de Gasparin

In the end, doubt doubts doubt
-William Douglas Horden
 
If you doubt yourself,
then indeed, you stand on shaky ground.
-Henrik Ibsen
 
But above all,
do not make yourself important by doubting.
-Soren Kierkegaard
 
Our doubts are our traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare
 
To leap across an abyss,
one is better served by faith than doubt.
-William James
 
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
-Alfred Tennyson
 
If the Sun and Moon should doubt
They'd immediately go out.
-William Blake
 
When you doubt, abstain.
-Zoroaster
 
Doubt, indulged and cherished,
is in danger of becoming denial;
but if honest and bent on thorough investigation,
it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
-Tyron Edwards
 
One must verify or expel his doubts,
and convert them into the certainty of Yes of No.
-Thomas Carlyle
 
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow
will be our doubts of today.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
If we are ever in doubt about what to do,
it is a good rule to ask ourselves
what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
-John Lubbock

Doubt is the only thing that gets in the way
of anything and everything being possible.
-Jack Lee Rosenberg

In the end, doubt doubts doubt.
-William Douglas Horden