Jealousy lives upon doubts. [ Rochefoucauld ]
He doubts nothing who knows nothing. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win.
By fearing to attempt. [ William Shakespeare ]
Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll
Cimmerian darkness over the parting soul. [ Campbell ]
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground. [ Bailey ]
He that casts all doubts shall never be resolved. [ Proverb ]
A skeptic is not one who doubts, but one who examines. [ Sainte-Beuve ]
Where love is great the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sc. 2 ]
He that doubts the existence of mind, by doubting, proves it. [ Milton in his Old Age ]
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. [ Browning ]
I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. [ Goethe ]
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. [ Thoreau ]
These are the effects of doting age, - vain doubts and idle cares and overcaution. [ Dryden ]
O, what damned minutes tells he over, who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves! [ William Shakespeare ]
Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. [ J. Watts ]
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution. [ Johnson ]
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. [ Pascal ]
In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. [ Bacon ]
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]