I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
~By Julien Benda ~
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
~By Paul Elmer More ~
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
~By Kate Seredy ~
John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
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.
~By Edith Rogers ~
During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
~By James W. Black ~
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
~By John Henry Newman ~
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
~By James P. Hogan ~
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.
~By Curt Weldon ~
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~By Colin Powell ~
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
~By Ignazio Silone ~
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!
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
~By Florence Kelley ~
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.
~By Lord Hailsham ~
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
~By Frank Shorter ~
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 ~
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
~By Terry Porter ~
You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.
~By Jim Cramer ~
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.
~By Mark Pryor ~
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
~By Sallust ~
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
~By Rene Descartes ~
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
~By Pat Robertson ~
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
~By Karl Marx ~
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.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
~By George Sutherland ~
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
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.
~By Ernst Mach ~
There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.
~By Stephen Wolfram ~
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.
~By John Ruskin ~
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
~By Janez Drnovsek ~
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
~By Morris Kline ~
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
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 ~
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 right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
~By Robert Browning ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
~By Joseph Butler ~
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.
~By William Banting ~
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 ~
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
~By John Gielgud ~
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.
~By Golda Meir ~
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?
~By Goldwin Smith ~
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
~By Billy Wilder ~
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
~By Sallust ~
When in doubt wear red.
~By Bill Blass ~
There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
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 ~
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
~By Larry J. Sabato ~
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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.
~By Julian McMahon ~
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
~By James H. Boren ~
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.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
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.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
~By Warren Buffett ~
Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Doubt is the brother of shame.
~By Erik Erikson ~
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
~By Scott Dixon ~
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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.
~By Robin Roberts ~
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 ~
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
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.
~By Dean Koontz ~
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 ~
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.
~By John Grierson ~
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