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.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
~By John Galsworthy ~
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
~By John Ralston Saul ~
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.
~By Thomas Reid ~
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
~By Augustus Hare ~
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Goudge ~
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.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
~By Hans Blix ~
You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.
~By James Cameron ~
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
~By George Orwell ~
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.
~By John Frusciante ~
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
~By David Edward Jenkins ~
The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
~By Terry Porter ~
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
When in doubt, use brute force.
~By Ken Thompson ~
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 ~
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
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 ~
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
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 ~
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
When in doubt, don't.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
~By Jock Sturges ~
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.
~By Tony Greig ~
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
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.
~By David Ogilvy ~
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
~By James H. Breasted ~
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 ~
I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
~By John Malkovich ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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 ~
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.
~By Spencer Abraham ~
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Jose Saramago ~
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
~By Henry Green ~
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.
~By Panayiotis Zavos ~
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
~By Knut Hamsun ~
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 ~
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~By Voltaire ~
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
~By Laurence Housman ~
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
~By Billy Joel ~
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.
~By Peter Straub ~
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
~By Chris Patten ~
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.
~By Henry James ~
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.
~By Learned Hand ~
Without a doubt, professional boxers are the most exploited athletes in our Nation.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
~By Colin Powell ~
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
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.
~By Henry Wade ~
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.
~By Cat Stevens ~
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
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 ~
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.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
~By Arthur Honegger ~
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
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 doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
~By James Payn ~
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
~By Sallust ~
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.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
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 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.
~By Fay Wray ~
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
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.
~By Maimonides ~
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
~By Marianne Moore ~
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
~By William McKinley ~
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
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.
~By Jacques Rivette ~
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~By Francis Bacon ~
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
~By Paul Tillich ~
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
~By Georg Brandes ~
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
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.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
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.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
~By Hank Aaron ~
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