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Doubt Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “The temerity to believe in nothing.”

Ivan Turgenev

Nihilism, Belief, Doubt, Philosophy, Emptiness

2. “Yet can it be that I was fit for nothing, that for me there was, as it were, no work on earth to do?”

Ivan Turgenev

Existentialism, Purpose, Doubt, Identity, Despair

3. “It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.”

Charles Lamb

Faith, Devotion, Doubt, Perception, Struggle

4. “The right questions generate curiosity. The wrong ones generate doubt.”

Ankur Warikoo

Questions, Curiosity, Doubt, Inquiry, Mindset

5. “I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.”

Sam Walton

Doubt, Retail, Persistence, Challenge, Experience

6. “Be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.”

Sam Walton

Persistence, Criticism, Retail, Population, Doubt

7. “If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.”

Jimmy Carter

Death Penalty, Justice, Doubt, System, Fairness

8. “Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Doubt, Curiosity, Wisdom, Learning, Truth

9. “In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Doubt, Enlightenment, Perception, Wisdom, Zen

10. “Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

Scott Adams

Opinion, Complexity, Perspective, Judgment, Doubt

11. “Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.”

Scott Adams

Choices, Happiness, Psychology, Decision-making, Doubt

12. “One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.”

Scott Adams

Experts, Trust, Complexity, Money, Doubt

13. “Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.”

Leonard Cohen

Faith, Strength, Doubt, Proof, Conviction

14. “Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful, give or take a night or two.”

Leonard Cohen

Faithfulness, Love, Doubt, Truth, Relationships

15. “I don’t trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.”

Leonard Cohen

Doubt, Emotions, Uncertainty, Change, Introspection

16. “The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.”

Thomas Merton

Self-reflection, Humility, Growth, Wisdom, Doubt

17. “The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”

Thomas Merton

Faith, Belief, Love, Doubt, Spirituality

18. “You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.”

Thomas Merton

Faith, Doubt, Understanding, Growth, Belief

19. “The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.”

Thomas Merton

Faith, Doubt, Belief, Strength, Conviction

20. “A “FAITH” that merely confirms us in opinionatedness and self-complacency may well be an expression of theological doubt. True faith is never merely a source of spiritual comfort. It may indeed bring peace, but before it does so it must involve us in struggle. A “faith” that avoids this struggle is really a temptation against true faith.”

Thomas Merton

Faith, Doubt, Comfort, Struggle, Spiritual Challenge

21. “I’ve heard all my life that ‘this is impossible, you can’t make it’ and ‘you’re going to fail’, but I didn’t listen to them and I made it.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Perseverance, Success, Doubt, Determination, Achievement

22. “Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.”

Herbert Spencer

Agnosticism, Belief, Religion, Philosophy, Doubt

23. “People may doubt you, but never doubt your deep inner call, inner voice and inner strength.”

Amit Ray

Doubt, Inner, Call, Voice, Strength

24. “A fearful man is always hearing things.”

Sophocles

Fearful, Man, Hearing, Paranoia, Doubt

25. “It ain’t easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain’t there, trying to do without him is a strain.”

Alice Walker

Faith, Struggle, Spirituality, Doubt, Existence

26. “If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Love, Emotion, Pain, Doubt, Desire