Doubt Quotes

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

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

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

When in doubt, throw it out.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

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

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.