Quotes on the topic: Doubt


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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.


My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.


Doubt is the father of invention.


When you doubt, abstain.


Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.


Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.


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.


Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.


There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.


Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.


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


Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.


Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.


A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.


Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.


Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.


Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.


I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.


'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.