Quotes and Sayings About Doubt
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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
-- A. A. Milne -
History is the great propagator of doubt.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
-- A.C. GraylingSource : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21
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It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
-- Abba Eban -
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.
-- Abbi Glines -
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
-- Abdul Kalam -
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons. All of which makes them easy and mouth watering targets for the believers.
-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell -
When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.
-- Adam Leipzig -
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
-- Adam McKay -
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
-- Ade Edmondson -
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
-- Aga Khan IVSource : "Canada: 'A Model for the World'". The Globe and Mail, February 02, 2002.
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
-- Agnes Repplier -
But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
-- Aimee MannSource : Song: Momentum
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
-- Aimee Mullins -
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
-- Ajahn Chah -
There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : J. Edgar Hoover (2015). “Masters Of Deceit: The Story Of Communism In America And How To Fight It”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing
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Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'
-- Al Franken -
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I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.
-- Al Gore -
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
-- Al Pacino