Doubt Quotations | Page 4

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

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.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.

In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

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

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

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

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

There's no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It's responsible for the substantial amplitude of earthly ocean tides. These are of obvious influence if you're a geoduck, a type of clam that people dig up at low tide.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

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.

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

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

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

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

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

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

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.