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Doubt Quotes


"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."


"No doubt it was better to have become president than not."


"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide."


"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."


"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."


"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."


"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."


"The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts."


"Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived."


"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."


"I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am."


"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."


"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."


"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."


"Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better."


"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."


"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."


"I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does."


"There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy."


"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president."


"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."


"This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it."


"No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order."


"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."


"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."


"As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done."


"There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one."


"The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified."


"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."


"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."


"The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened."
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