Doubted Quotes

• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Enthusiasm, Eloquence

  Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.17, Bottletree Books LLC

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  The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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• Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

  Reba McEntire

  Mad, Reason, Crash

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

  Richard J. Daley

  Government, Cities, Perfection

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• I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dust, Evil, Apartheid

  Interview with Nick Stadlen, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

  Charles Inglis

  Government, Preference, Form

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• I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  One Day, German History, World

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• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  Tacitus

  History, Reign, Ability

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• I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

  Gloria Swanson

  Office, Directors, Corporations

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• I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

  Nellie Bly

  Doctors, Asking, Sanity

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.85, Golgotha Press

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• The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

  George Sutherland

  Mean, Law, Would Be

  Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465, (469), 1935.

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• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  Hans Blix

  War, Decision, Nuclear

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• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Faith, Honesty

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 96

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Opposites, Doubt

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Faith, Education, Teacher

  Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

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• People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

  Steve Nash

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

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• There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Fannie Flagg

  Faith, Believe, Doubt

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.777, Random House

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• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

  Franz Kafka

  Guiding Principles, Guilt, Principles

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.198, Schocken

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• Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Inspirational, Doors, Doubt

  Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (2013). “Essays and Reviews”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Shadow, Half

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

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Moon, Doubt

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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