Henry David Thoreau Doubt Quotations

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.