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Doubt Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
- It is only doubt that creates.
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
- Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings…
- It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.
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- I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I… — Michele Bachmann
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale
- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
- Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. — John Banville
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. — Henry Adams
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore