Doubt Quotes
4294 Doubt quotes by 2661 unique authors
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Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes…
— John C. Maxwell
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
— Robert Hughes
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I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a…
— David Foster Wallace
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Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and…
— Tom Clancy
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A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me…
— Golda Meir
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For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath
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We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise…
— Isabel Allende
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There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going…
— Terry Goodkind
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We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust…
— Chetan Bhagat
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I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I'd forgotten. I was toast. I…
— Rick Riordan
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What are men? Children who doubt.
— Derek Walcott
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would…
— Charles Dickens
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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the…
— Franz Kafka
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The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The…
— David Levithan
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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt.…
— David Levithan
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And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally." Brooklyn quirked her lips in…
— Darynda Jones
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The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat…
— Milan Kundera
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I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there…
— Darynda Jones
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Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.
— Britney Spears
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Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the…
— George R. R. Martin
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Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating,…
— Rick Riordan
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The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison.…
— Richard Dawkins
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