It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Khalil Gibran
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Napoleon Hill
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
George W. Bush
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Johnson
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
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.
James Madison
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude Stein
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
Dave Barry
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander Pope
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Ambrose Bierce
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Ambrose Bierce
Doubt is the father of invention.
Ambrose Bierce
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Ambrose Bierce
When you doubt, abstain.
Ambrose Bierce
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David Ogilvy
When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
Robin Williams
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Jimmy Buffett
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.
Marquis de Sade
I love to doubt as well as know.
Dante Alighieri
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson Mizner
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
Roald Dahl
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Ernest Holmes
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler
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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda Meir
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
Donald Rumsfeld
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
Donald Rumsfeld
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Giacomo Casanova
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Paul Tillich
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave Flaubert
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
John Lubbock
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
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.
Billy Sunday
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
Thomas S. Monson
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Thomas S. Monson
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz
In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
Margaret J. Wheatley
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Christopher Columbus
I'm not going to doubt my life.
Yoko Ono
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Anne Rice
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Dean Koontz
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
Sri Aurobindo
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.
John Dalton
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
Sandra Day O'Connor
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.
Anthony Weiner
There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.
Anthony Weiner
Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.
Maurice Strong
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
John Frusciante
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac Disraeli
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda
There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
Condoleezza Rice
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
Steven Gerrard
Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
Jimmy Page
The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
Dick Cheney
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Doubt is the brother of shame.
Erik Erikson
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
Jonny Greenwood
When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
Laurence J. Peter
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
John Henry Newman
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy"'or 'What do you think of this?'
Madonna Ciccone
Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
Shania Twain
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.
Cat Stevens
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Friedrich Schiller
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.
Paul Ryan
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
Lou Reed
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Learned Hand
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Learned Hand
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
William McKinley
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
Bob Newhart
Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
Gwen Stefani
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
Arne Jacobsen
When in doubt, punt!
John Heisman
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
Sam Houston
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
John McCain
