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Quotes about Doubt


Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.

Edmond Rostand

When in doubt, win the trick.

Appendix

"Arms, and the man I sing, who forc'ed by Fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting Hate; Expell'ed and exil'd, left the Trojan Shoar: Long Labours, both by Sea and Land he bore; And in the doubtful War, before he won, the Latian realm, and built the destin'd Town: His banish'd gods restor'd to Rites Divine, and setl'd sure Succession in his line: From Whence the Race of Alban Fathers come, and the long Glories of Majestick Rome."

I have had too much experience with revenants to scoff at the living traces the dead leave behind. Ghosts walk, no doubt about it

There was a time when I began to doubt man's sanity how could he live without knowing for sure what dawn what death what doom awaited consciousness beyond the tomb?

Vladimir Nabokov

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

After all his former doubts, he now felt something he had never before experienced--the certainty that love is invincible.

Leo Tolstoy

I doubt, therefore I might be.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

To philosophize is to doubt.

Montaigne

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

When in doubt, do as doubters do.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.

Jonathan Swift

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Goethe

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel philosopher and writer

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.

Samuel Butler

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Theodore Rubin

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

Benjamin Jowett

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