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Doubt Quotes


"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide."


"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."


"No doubt it was better to have become president than not."


"The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts."


"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."


"The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified."


"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."


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


"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."


"Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better."


"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."


"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."


"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."


"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."


"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."


"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."


"The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened."


"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."


"There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future."


"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."


"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east."


"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."


"The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt."


"I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am."


"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."


"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."


"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."


"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."


"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."


"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."


"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."


"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."


"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century."


"There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one."


"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."


"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
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