Quotes with doubt

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  • Aaron Hill Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bob Woodward The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne 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.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Jean Rostand The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Havelock Ellis The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Francis Quarles The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Bertrand Russell The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Billy Sunday There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Alfred Korzybski There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Vaclav Havel There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Arnold Bennett 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.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Kofi Annan There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Arne Jacobsen There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Arthur Erickson 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.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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