Doubt Quotes · Page 78

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

— William E. Woodward

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

— Aldo Leopold

“To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

— Bertrand Russell

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi

— Ally Carter

I don't doubt that the war on terror, at its core, is a war on ideology.

— Will Cain

“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.”

— G.B. Burgin

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond…

— Christopher Hitchens

Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring…

— Gregory David Roberts

Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine…

— Henry Van Dyke

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to…

— Judy Woodruff

“We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to…

— Deepak Chopra

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

— Ian Gardner

“Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not…

— Holly Ordway

The more frequently you focus on your appreciation and gratitude for each breath, the greater will be your sense of daily gratitude...…

— Zelig Pliskin

What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental…

— Sigmund Freud

“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently…

— Po Bronson

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration…

— Thomas Jefferson

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse…

— Nigel Rees

incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for…

— David Levithan

Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to,…

— J.R. Ward

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

— Antonio Tabucchi

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

— Gabriel Vahanian

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

— Lilith Saintcrow

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

— Leonard Ravenhill

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

— Franz Kafka

I always find competition in each and every thing I do, and it will bring competition - no doubt about it.

— Peyton Hillis

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

— Slavoj Žižek

“The world out there was the way it was no matter how much doubt or hope or hate a person breathed into…

— Hugh Howey

“uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.”

— Dan Brown

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

— Lisa Kleypas

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

— Robert Brady

“We can all create through imagination, but our reality is often blocked by our doubts.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

— Jennifer Hudson

There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong?

— Zach Braff

“The fear is so deep, so irrational, so immediate, that I can neither doubt it or examine it.”

— Michael S.A. Graziano

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

— Fulton J. Sheen