top of page
.png){kind=small}
Doubt Quotes
"I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore."
6
"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."
6
"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it."
6
"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."
6
"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."
6
"The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost."
6
"Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions."
6
"The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt."
5
"There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind."
5
"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."
5
"While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist."
4
"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
4
"Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."
4
"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
4
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
3
"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."
3
"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
3
"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."
3
"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
2
"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
2
"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
1
bottom of page