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Doubts and Uncertainties QuotesFamous Doubts and Uncertainties quotes by popular authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Erich Fromm, R. I. Fitzhenry, George Eliot, John Henry Cardinal Newman and others.
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[highlight-text]Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
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[highlight-text]When in doubt do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]When in doubt win the trick.
Edmund Hoyle
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[highlight-text]Not seeing is half-believing.
Vita Sackville-West
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[highlight-text]When in doubt take more time.
John Zimmerman
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[highlight-text]When in doubt, quote Franklin.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]When we are not sure we are alive.
Graham Greene
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[highlight-text]Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]I'm from Missouri; you must show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
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[highlight-text]Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulmer
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[highlight-text]Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
Maria Schinz
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[highlight-text]In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.
Statius
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[highlight-text]Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]We are not certain we are never certain.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
Agnes Thornton
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[highlight-text]And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.
Romans
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[highlight-text]When there is a doubt, there is no doubt.
Robert De Niro
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[highlight-text]You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
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[highlight-text]Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Frances Ridley Havergal
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[highlight-text]When nothing is sure everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
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[highlight-text]Our lives are never certain even for an hour.
Ferrant Sanchez Calavera
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[highlight-text]The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
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[highlight-text]A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.
Zora Neale Hurston
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[highlight-text]A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
William Wrigley
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[highlight-text]No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Elizabeth Bowen
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[highlight-text]The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
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[highlight-text]The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.
Mark Rutherford
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[highlight-text]To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stanislaus
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[highlight-text]To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!
Edith M. Thomas
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[highlight-text]In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.
Karl Kraus
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[highlight-text]He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John H. Finley
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[highlight-text]Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
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[highlight-text]Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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[highlight-text]When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Honore de Balzac
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[highlight-text]No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
Bernie S. Siegel
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[highlight-text]Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence S. Darrow
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[highlight-text]It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
Celine Dion
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[highlight-text]Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.
Marlo Thomas
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[highlight-text]Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.
Horatio Nelson
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[highlight-text]There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Owen Meredith
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[highlight-text]There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.
Sir Ian Hamilton
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[highlight-text]Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
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[highlight-text]We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
Rev. William Sloane Coffin
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[highlight-text]Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
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[highlight-text]There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
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[highlight-text]Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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[highlight-text]If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
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[highlight-text]There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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[highlight-text]We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
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[highlight-text]Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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[highlight-text]We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles William Eliot
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[highlight-text]To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller
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[highlight-text]All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
Antonio Machado
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[highlight-text]The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
Huang Po
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[highlight-text]Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.
Lillian Carter
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[highlight-text]I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas
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[highlight-text]Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
E. J. Klemme
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[highlight-text]Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.
Belva Davis
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[highlight-text]Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
W. S. Gilbert
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[highlight-text]I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.
Jill Trenary
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[highlight-text]The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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[highlight-text]We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.
Barbara Ward
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[highlight-text]Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith
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[highlight-text]If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
Alexandre Dumas
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[highlight-text]There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
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[highlight-text]Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John E. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
Rose Macaulay
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[highlight-text]The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
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[highlight-text]Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry
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[highlight-text]Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
Anna Dostoevsky
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[highlight-text]To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.
R. I. Fitzhenry
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[highlight-text]Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
Federico Fellini
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[highlight-text]Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.
Helen Hayes
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[highlight-text]The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.
Mark Rutherford
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[highlight-text]I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.
Nancy Woodhull
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[highlight-text]Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
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[highlight-text]I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of 'The Look.'
Lauren Bacall
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[highlight-text]Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
E. Stanley Jones
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[highlight-text]Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Kerrigan
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[highlight-text]When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.
John Wesley
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[highlight-text]The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
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[highlight-text]If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?'
Beatrice Potter Webb
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[highlight-text]I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
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[highlight-text]When one devotes oneself to meditation mental burdens unnecessary worries and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition second thought with its dualism doubt and hesitation does not arise.
Nyogen Senzaki
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[highlight-text]Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
Charlton Ogburn