Quotes with doubt

  • I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
  • A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
  • The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
  • No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
  • Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
  • Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
  • 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.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Doubt can only be removed by action.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Albert Pike 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.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mark Twain I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Burns I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Napoleon Hill Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Douglas Adams We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Ben Barnes You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam ... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Aldous Huxley A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
    The Integration of the Personality (1939)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marquis de Sade 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.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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