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Doubt Quotes

"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."

"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."

Terence, Roman Writer

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

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

William McKinley, American President

44

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

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

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

43

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

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

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

42

"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."

"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."

James H. Boren, American Public Servant

42

"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."

"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."

Roald Dahl, British Novelist

Doubt, Pain, Today

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"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."

"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."

Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist

Doubt, Hatred, Suspicion

41

"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources."

"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources."

Martin van Creveld, Israeli Historian

Doubt, Military, Will

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Doubt, Pain, Will

41

"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."

"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."

Malcolm Forbes, American Publisher

41

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

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

Jerry Pournelle, American Journalist

Doubt, Necessity, Reflection

40

"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."

"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."

E. T. Bell, Scottish Mathematician

Doubt, Pretty, Pursuit, Quest

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"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."

"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."

Robert Barnes, English Celebrity

39

"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."

"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

39

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

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

Albert Speer, German Architect

39

"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."

"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."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Doubt, Faith, God, Self-Worth

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"I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?"

"I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Doubt, Faith, Spiritual, Truth

39

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

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

James Anthony Froude, English Historian

Doubt, Philosophy

39

"Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions."

"Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Doubt, World, Question, Truth, Philosophy

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"I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

Doubt, Faith, Choice, Movement

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"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."

"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

Doubt, Intellectuals, Job, Perfection

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"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."

"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."

Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman

Doubt, Italy, Party

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

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

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

38

"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."

"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."

Robin Williams, American Comedian

38

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

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

George Thorogood, American Musician

37

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

Doubt, Doctrine, Example, Religious

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"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."

"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."

John Prescott, British Politician

37

"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."

"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Doubt, Ideology, Practice

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"You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt."

"You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt."

Learned Hand, American Judge

Doubt, Fact, Injustice, Mind

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"To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now."

"To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now."

Julius Streicher, German Soldier

Doubt, Day, Now, Proof

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"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."

"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."

Joseph Butler, English Clergyman

36

"No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools."

"No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools."

Albert Claude, Belgian Scientist

Doubt, Man, Measure, Tools

36

"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."

"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

36

"A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts."

"A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts."

Omar Epps, American Actor

36

"It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards."

"It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards."

Alice Rivlin, American Economist

Doubt, Dying, Job, Republican

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

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

Kurt Russell, American Actor

Doubt, Play, Will

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"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."

"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."

Barbara Deming, American Author

35

"It is easier to believe than to doubt."

"It is easier to believe than to doubt."

Gene Fowler, American Journalist

34

"There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen."

"There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen."

Panayiotis Zavos, Greek Scientist

Doubt, May, Will

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"There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district."

"There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district."

Anthony Weiner, American Politician

34

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

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

Stacy Keach, American Actor

34

"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"

"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"

Becca Fitzpatrick, American Novelist

Doubt, Journey, Decision, Reflection

34

"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud."

"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud."

Robert Merrill, American Musician

34

"We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost."

"We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Doubt, Uncertainty, Loss, Confidence

34

"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."

"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."

Steven Gerrard, English Athlete

33

"However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland."

"However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland."

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Polish Politician

33

"This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it."

"This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it."

John Dalton, British Scientist

Doubt, Interest, Will

33

"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."

"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."

Mark Pryor, American Politician

32

"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."

"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."

Joseph Glanvill, English Writer

32

"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."

"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."

Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

Doubt, Fight, Will

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