Doubt Quotes - Page 58

Doubt is the father of invention.

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

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

The worst is over without a doubt.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

I'm not going to doubt my life.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.