300 Quotes on Doubt

• In the soft murmur of silence, lies a symphony of insight that breathes into the somber balloons of our lingering doubts.

  Author: Angela Dawson

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

  Author: Alexandra Lukas

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

  Author: Emily Green

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

  Author: Sophia Moore

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

  Author: Gabrielle Rivera

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

  Author: Samantha Roberts

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

  Author: Emily Watson

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

  Author: Maya Patel

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

  Author: Kahlil Gibran

• When in doubt, exchange.

  Author: John Zimmerman

• When in doubt, take more time.

  Author: John Zimmerman

• 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

• I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

  Author: Albert Wynn

• I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

  Author: Fay Wray

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

  Author: Bob Woodward

• There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

  Author: William Wilson

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

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• When in doubt, go for the dick joke.

  Author: Robin Williams

• 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

• At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

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

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

  Author: William Whipple

• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Author: Morris West

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

  Author: Arsene Wenger

• There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• 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

• The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

  Author: Jody Watley

• There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

  Author: Dionne Warwick

• 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

• I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.

  Author: Henry Wade

• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Author: Voltaire

• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

  Author: Miguel Unamuno

• True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

  Author: Miguel Unamuno

• Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

  Author: Shania Twain

• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

  Author: Mark Twain

• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Author: Mark Twain

• In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

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

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

  Author: Gene Tierney

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

  Author: George Thorogood

• Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• 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

• When in doubt, use brute force.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

  Author: William Thackeray

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

  Author: Terence

• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"

  Author: Josiah Strong

• Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

  Author: Peter Straub

• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  Author: I. Stone

• And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

  Author: James Stockdale

• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  Author: Jackie Stewart

• Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

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

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

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

  Author: Albert Speer

• As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

  Author: Arlen Specter

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

  Author: Arlen Specter

• The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

  Author: John Spalding

• I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

  Author: John Snow

• If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

  Author: Lillian Smith

• Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

  Author: Anna Smith

• An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

  Author: John Sirica

• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

  Author: Iain Sinclair

• If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

  Author: Bobby Sherman

• By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

  Author: Eric Sevareid

• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  Author: Kate Seredy

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  Author: Walter Scott

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Author: Jose Saramago

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

  Author: Carl Sandburg

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

  Author: Kim Sam

• The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

  Author: Alain Sage

• 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

• All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

  Author: Vita Sackville-West

• I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  Author: Larry Sabato

• Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

  Author: Paul Ryan

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

  Author: Kurt Russell

• I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

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

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

  Author: John Ruskin

• 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

• Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

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

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• 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

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

  Author: Jean Rostand

• If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

  Author: Moo-hyum Roh

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

  Author: James Rogers

• I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

  Author: Edith Rogers

• Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• In love we often doubt what we most believe.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.

  Author: Robin Roberts

• Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

  Author: Jacques Rivette

• It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

  Author: Antoine Rivarol

• There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

  Author: Anne Rice

• Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

  Author: David Ricardo

• 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

• 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

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  Author: B. Reece

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

  Author: Herbert Read

• There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

  Author: Francis Quarles

• 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

• 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

• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

  Author: Colin Powell

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

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

  Author: Terry Porter

• I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

  Author: George Porter

• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

  Author: Alexander Pope

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

  Author: Henri Poincare

• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Author: Albert Pike

• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  Author: Abbe Pierre

• Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

  Author: Marge Piercy

• Without a doubt, professional boxers are the most exploited athletes in our Nation.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

  Author: Richard Perle

• Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

  Author: Charles Peirce

• 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

• We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

  Author: Bill Owens

• I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

  Author: George Orwell

• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  Author: George Orwell

• It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  Author: Barack Obama

• If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.

  Author: John Oates

• I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Author: Anais Nin

• Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

  Author: John Newman

• Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

  Author: Bob Newhart

• I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

  Author: Russell Nelson

• I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• 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

• Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

  Author: Pervez Musharraf

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

  Author: Johann Most

• The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

  Author: Karl Moritz

• If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

  Author: Marianne Moore

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

  Author: Marianne Moore

• Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

  Author: Thomas Monson

• Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

  Author: Thomas Monson

• I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

  Author: Wilson Mizner

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

  Author: Warren Mitchell

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Author: Dan Millman

• 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

• To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

  Author: Myriam Miedzian

• When in doubt, sing loud.

  Author: Robert Merrill

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

  Author: Robert Merrill

• 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

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  Author: Sam Mendes

• My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

  Author: Lord Melbourne

• There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

  Author: Golda Meir

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

  Author: George Meany

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.

  Author: Julian McMahon

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

  Author: William McKinley

• It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

  Author: Jacqueline McKenzie

• When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

  Author: Jim McKay

• 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 myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used.

  Author: Hugh McCulloch

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

  Author: John McCain

• Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

  Author: John McCain

• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

  Author: Rollo May

• If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

  Author: Christy Mathewson

• To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

  Author: Philip Massinger

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

  Author: Karl Marx

• There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

  Author: Sophie Marceau

• Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

  Author: Henry Maine

• You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

  Author: Maimonides

• I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

  Author: James Madison

• And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

  Author: James Madison

• Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

  Author: Ernst Mach

• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  Author: Wangari Maathai

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

  Author: Shannon Lucid

• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  Author: Gary Lucas

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

  Author: Gordon Lightfoot

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

  Author: Georg Lichtenberg

• In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

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

  Author: Stanislaw Lec

• Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

  Author: Isidore Lautreamont

• There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

  Author: Max Laue

• God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

  Author: Walter Lang

• Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

• Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

  Author: Suzanne Lafollette

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

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  Author: Fletcher Knebel

• And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

  Author: William King

• There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

  Author: William King

• In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

  Author: Peter King

• We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

  Author: Peter King

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  Author: Larry King

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

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

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

  Author: Stacy Keach

• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  Author: Elia Kazan

• Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

  Author: Marcy Kaptur

• It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

  Author: Immanuel Kant

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

  Author: Franz Kafka

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

  Author: Benjamin Jowett

• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

  Author: Phillip Johnson

• When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

  Author: Jerry Jenkins

• I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

  Author: David Jenkins

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

  Author: William James

• We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

  Author: Henry James

• People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

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

  Author: Arne Jacobsen

• To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

  Author: Peter Jackson

• When in doubt, throw it out.

  Author: Jeremy Jackson

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Robert Ingersoll

• 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.

  Author: William Inge

• 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

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

  Author: Aldous Huxley

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

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

  Author: John Hutton

• I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

  Author: Jeffrey Hunter

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Author: Robert Hughes

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

  Author: Kin Hubbard

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

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  Author: Sam Houston

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

  Author: Gerard Hopkins

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

  Author: Arthur Honegger

• When in doubt, do it.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

  Author: Ernest Holmes

• There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

  Author: Charles Hodge

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

  Author: David Hockney

• In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

  Author: Robyn Hitchcock

• 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.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

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

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  Author: Abraham Heschel

• How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

  Author: Arthur Hertzberg

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

  Author: Robert Herrick

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

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

  Author: Levon Helm

• When in doubt, punt!

  Author: John Heisman

• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

  Author: Cynthia Heimel

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

  Author: William Hazlitt

• It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

  Author: Colin Hay

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

• There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

  Author: Bob Hawke

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Learned Hand

• 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.

  Author: Marvin Hamlisch

• 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.

  Author: Lord Hailsham

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  Author: Ursula Guin

• I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

  Author: John Grisham

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

  Author: Rachel Griffiths

• Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

  Author: Merv Griffin

• The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

  Author: Tony Greig

• Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

  Author: Jonny Greenwood

• By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.

  Author: Simon Greenleaf

• How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.

  Author: Simon Greenleaf

• 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

• Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

  Author: Elizabeth Goudge

• Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

  Author: Jerry Goldsmith

• Doubt grows with knowledge.

  Author: Johann Goethe

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