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Doubt Quotes

"I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer."

Jenny Agutter, English Actress

Doubt, Patience, Respect, Writer

"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

Doubt, End, Nothing, Will

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

"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

Doubt, Doctrine, Example, Religious

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Doubt, Fathers, Now

"It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured."

Joseph Glanvill, English Writer

"When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

Doubt, Public, Wrong

"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."

Fredrik Bajer, Danish Writer

Doubt, English, Vice, Will

"To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now."

Julius Streicher, German Soldier

Doubt, Day, Now, Proof

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

Lord Byron, British Poet

"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."

Joseph Butler, English Clergyman

"Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families."

Robbie Fowler, English Athlete

"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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Doubt, Man, Will, Writing

"Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

"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."

Albert Claude, Belgian Scientist

Doubt, Man, Measure, Tools

"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."

Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

Doubt, Fight, Will

"But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but."

Lou Reed, American Musician

"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"

Robert Dale Owen, Scottish Politician

Doubt, Measure, Responsibility, Wonder, Wrong

"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

"Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free."

Garet Garrett, American Journalist

"They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine."

Hugh Miller, Scottish Scientist

Doubt, Horses, Man

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Doubt, Artist, Depression, Reward

"If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt."

Shannon Lucid, American Astronaut

"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."

Roald Dahl, British Novelist

Doubt, Pain, Today

"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."

Robin Williams, American Comedian

"There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

Doubt, Majority, Opinions, Reputation

"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Lawyer

Doubt, Intellect

"When in doubt, exchange."

John Zimmerman, American Athlete

"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."

Barbara Deming, American Author

"However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland."

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Polish Politician

"Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility."

Johnny Isakson, American Politician

Doubt, President, Responsibility, Senate

"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."

Rachel Griffiths, American Actress

"In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to."

Warren Mitchell, Australian Actor

"A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts."

Omar Epps, American Actor

"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express."

Morley Safer, Canadian Journalist

Doubt, Will, Woman

"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."

John Lubbock, British Statesman

"It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards."

Alice Rivlin, American Economist

Doubt, Dying, Job, Republican

"I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore."

Pat Buchanan, American Journalist

Doubt, President, Vice

"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."

Karl A. Menninger, American Psychologist

Doubt, Murder, Suicide

"Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."

George Meany, American Activist

"There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district."

Anthony Weiner, American Politician

"Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Doubt, Earth, Evolution, Open

"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."

John Prescott, British Politician

"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

"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."

James W. Black, Scottish Scientist

Doubt, Research, Years

"This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it."

Stacy Keach, American Actor

"I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind."

Natalie Imbruglia, Australian Musician

"When in doubt, punt!"

John Heisman, American Coach

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