Doubt Quotes
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'What’s going on?' I whispered to Gina.'Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,' she murmured back. 'So they’ve invented a new acronym.'
Connie Willis
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The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
Charles Darwin
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There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.
Miuccia Prada
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
Tariq Ramadan
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I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
John Frusciante
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They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only your doubt and disbelief can interrupt the flow of His blessings. Your attitude, your confessions, and your thoughts all play a vital part in opening and closing the floodgates of His blessing on your life.
Bishop Noel Jones
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I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.
David A. Siegel
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
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I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
James McAvoy
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
Gene Tierney
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Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
Adam Smith
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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
Andrew Cohen
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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
Anthony Trollope
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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
Oscar Wilde
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However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
Dwight Yoakam
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If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.
Bobby Sherman
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When life partner happens, I hope he is not a youth icon then because I doubt even I would be youthful then. Whether life partner is hot or not, that doesn't matter. He has to be a nice man. He should be funny, responsible, and he should be sweet, and he should love me a lot.
Alia Bhatt
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If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
Floyd Abrams
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In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.
Ian Gardner
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
Washed Out
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No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
Peter O'Toole