Quotes on Doubt

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.

Author: Gianni Agnelli

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Author: Jenny Agutter

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Author: Alan Alda

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Author: Hans Balthasar

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.

Author: Robert Barnes

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.

Author: E. Bell

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

When you doubt, abstain.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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.

Author: Theodore Bikel

During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.

Author: James Black

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

Author: William Blake

When in doubt wear red.

Author: Bill Blass

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

Author: James Boren

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Author: Christian Bovee

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

Author: Robert Brady

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

Author: Inge Bruijn

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

Author: Pat Buchanan

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.

Author: Luis Bunuel

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

Author: Joseph Butler

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

Author: Samuel Butler

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.

Author: Samuel Butler

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

Author: Lord Byron

When in doubt do something.

Author: Harry Chapin

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Author: Claudia Christian

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.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

Author: Frank Clark

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.

Author: Albert Claude

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

Author: Martin Creveld

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.

Author: Roald Dahl

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

Author: Robert Dahl

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

Author: John Dalton

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Author: Robertson Davies

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

Author: Richard Dawkins

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.

Author: Barbara Deming

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

Author: Rene Descartes

There's no doubt about Prakash's abilities as a director.

Author: Ajay Devgan

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.

Author: John Donne

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

Author: Buenaventura Durruti

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.

Author: Shirin Ebadi

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

Author: Omar Epps

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

Author: Kevin Eubanks

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.

Author: Millicent Fawcett

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.

Author: Tom Felton

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

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Author: Gene Fowler

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.

Author: Robbie Fowler

When in doubt, don't.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

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

Author: James Froude

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

Author: Garet Garrett

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.

Author: Carl Gauss

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.

Author: Steven Gerrard

Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt.

Author: Maurice Greene

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

Author: Rachel Griffiths

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.

Author: Learned Hand

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.

Author: Alcee Hastings

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

Author: William Hazlitt

When in doubt, punt!

Author: John Heisman

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Author: Robert Herrick

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

Author: David Hockney

When in doubt, do it.

Author: Oliver Holmes

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

Author: Arthur Honegger

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

Author: Gerard Hopkins

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

Author: Kin Hubbard

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

Author: Aldous Huxley

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

Author: Aldous Huxley

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.

Author: Natalie Imbruglia

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.

Author: Johnny Isakson

When in doubt, throw it out.

Author: Jeremy Jackson

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

Author: Arne Jacobsen

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

Author: Benjamin Jowett

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Author: Franz Kafka

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

Author: Stacy Keach

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

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

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Author: Stanislaw Lec

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

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.

Author: Bjorn Lomborg

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Author: Nancy Lopez

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.

Author: John Lubbock

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

Author: Shannon Lucid

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Author: Karl Marx

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

Author: John McCain

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

Author: Colleen McCullough

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

Author: William McKinley

Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

Author: George Meany

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.

Author: Karl Menninger

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

Author: Robert Merrill

When in doubt, sing loud.

Author: Robert Merrill

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

Author: Hugh Miller

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Author: Warren Mitchell

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

Author: Marianne Moore

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.

Author: Grace Napolitano

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.

Author: Jimmy Page

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

Author: Henri Poincare

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Author: Alexander Pope

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

Author: Jerry Pournelle

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.

Author: John Prescott

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.

Author: Mark Pryor

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Author: Herbert Read

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Author: Lou Reed

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.

Author: Thomas Reid

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.

Author: Alice Rivlin

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Author: James Rogers

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

Author: Jean Rostand

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

Author: Pete Rozelle

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

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.

Author: John Ruskin

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

Author: Bertrand Russell

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

Author: Kurt Russell

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.

Author: Morley Safer

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

Author: Kim Sam

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Author: Carl Sandburg

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Author: William Shakespeare

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Author: Arlen Specter

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

Author: Albert Speer

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Author: Ralph Steadman

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Author: Gertrude Stein

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

Author: Antonio Tabucchi

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.

Author: Antonio Tabucchi

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

Author: Terence

When in doubt, use brute force.

Author: Ken Thompson

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Author: Henry Thoreau

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

Author: George Thorogood

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Author: Anthony Trollope

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.

Author: Rick Wakeman

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.

Author: Anthony Weiner

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Author: Arsene Wenger

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Author: Walt Whitman

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.

Author: George Williams

When in doubt, go for the dick joke.

Author: Robin Williams

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

Author: Samuel Wilson

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

Author: Bob Woodward

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.

Author: Panayiotis Zavos

When in doubt, exchange.

Author: John Zimmerman

To have faith is to have wings; to doubt is to embrace the ground.

Author: Kahlil Gibran

In the pursuit of knowledge, embrace the power of doubt as a guiding light through the shadow of ignorance.

Author: Maya Patel

With little faith comes great doubt, but with great faith comes endless possibilities.

Author: Emily Watson

Success is born out of the whispers of determination echoing in the valleys of doubt.

Author: Samantha Roberts

Faith is the anchor that steadies the turbulent seas of doubt.

Author: Gabrielle Rivera

The path to success is often obscured by doubt, just remember that clarity and persistence will always guide you through

Author: Sophia Moore

In the pursuit of knowledge, doubt is the greatest motivator.

Author: Emily Green

Fear is the monster that thrives on doubt, but courage is the weapon that slays it.

Author: Alexandra Lukas