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Doubt Quotes - Page 89

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

"Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.242

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.68

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.899, Delphi Classics

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

Willard Van Orman Quine (1961). “From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays”, p.26, Harvard University Press