Quotes about Doubt
To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
— John Adams
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
— Elbert Hubbard
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
— GK Chesterton
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
— Epicurus
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
— GK Chesterton
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything.
— GK Chesterton
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
— Paul Ricoeur
I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.
— Pope Francis
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
— John Milton
Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?
— Andy Stanley
If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.
— Hillary Clinton