Doubt Quotes
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle
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Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.
Elizabeth Riddell
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I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.
Elena Ferrante
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In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
John Ruskin
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As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.
Scott McClellan
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
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I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.
Sarah Dessen
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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
William Butler Yeats
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
Anthony Trollope
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
Beryl Markham
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There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
Stephen Fry
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I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.
Rajon Rondo
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If you question anything enough, you'll begin to doubt it.
Anthony Robbins
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Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.
Carolyn Hax
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There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.
William Attwood
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Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman
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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.
Nikki Haley
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If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
Mother Teresa
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
William Jennings Bryan
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Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.
Jimmy Carter