While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
~By Terence ~
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
~By Larry Flynt ~
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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.
~By Elia Kazan ~
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
~By David Brin ~
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
~By James Lane Allen ~
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.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.
~By Albert Wynn ~
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.
~By Robert Barnes ~
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
~By James H. Boren ~
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
~By Lord Jeffrey ~
I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~By Akhenaton ~
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
~By Richard J. Daley ~
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
~By Martin van Creveld ~
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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.
~By Max von Laue ~
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.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
~By Pat Buchanan ~
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
~By Lamar Hunt ~
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
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.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
~By Herbert Read ~
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
~By Inge de Bruijn ~
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.
~By James Madison ~
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
~By Robert Frost ~
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
~By Garet Garrett ~
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.
~By Peter Jackson ~
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
~By Nina Simone ~
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
~By George W. Bush ~
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.
~By Richard Perle ~
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
~By Paul Tillich ~
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.
~By Bob Hawke ~
I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
~By Herman Melville ~
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.
~By John J. Sirica ~
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.
~By John Lubbock ~
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
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.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.
~By Robert A. Dahl ~
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.
~By John Donne ~
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.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
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.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.
~By Robert Brady ~
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).
~By Gary Lucas ~
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Hugh McCulloch ~
Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
~By Joseph Butler ~
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
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.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
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.
~By Morris West ~
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.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
~By Eliot Ness ~
When in doubt tell the truth.
~By Mark Twain ~
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By Alice Rivlin ~
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
~By Anne Rice ~
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.
~By Campbell Scott ~
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
~By Warren Mitchell ~
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
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.
~By Albert Pike ~
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
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.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Doubt is the brother of shame.
~By Erik Erikson ~
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
~By Herbert Baxter Adams ~
When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.
~By Kurt Russell ~
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?"
~By Josiah Strong ~
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.
~By Hugh Miller ~
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
~By Gene Fowler ~
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.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
~By William Wirt ~
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.
~By Merv Griffin ~
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
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.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
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.
~By John Hutton ~
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
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