Doubt Quotes

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

There is little doubt coral reefs will no longer be prominent in coastal ecosystems if global average temperatures exceed two degrees Celsius.

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

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

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

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

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

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

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.

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

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.

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

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

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.

When in doubt, don't.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

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.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

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.

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

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

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.

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.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

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.