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Doubt Quotes
"Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously."
9
"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."
9
"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud."
9
"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
8
"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."
8
"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east."
8
"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
8
"It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured."
8
"However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland."
8
"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express."
8
"I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't."
8
"Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection."
8
"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."
7
"There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future."
7
"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."
7
"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."
7
"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."
7
"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."
7
"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
7
"If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right."
7
"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."
7
"The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened."
7
"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible."
7
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
7
"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"
6
"There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment."
6
"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century."
6
"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."
6
"Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families."
6
"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"
6
"Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free."
6
"Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility."
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