Best doubt & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.”

Ifs Doubt Trouble Information Superiors Temples Puzzles Borrowed Exertion

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.”

Ifs Philosophy Doubt Theory Ultimate Philosophical Aim Finals Sophistication Flux Generalization

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”

Ifs World Cities Doubt

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.”

Ifs Believe Doe Two Hands Doubt Essentials Vices Disaster Rational Faculty Vice Versa

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Belief Doubt Effects Depends Philosophical Conviction Artistic Blasphemy Fading

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.”

Source: Thoughts on art and life

“There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.”

Ifs Sometimes Seems Might Attitude Doubt Position Poet Reader Good Things Fantastic Not Sure No Doubt Clay Remarks Fertile Muddle Auden

Author:Randall Jarrell

“If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.”

Ifs Long Doubt Plans Missing

Author:Roger Ebert

“Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They weren't at all historically accurate," grumbled a woman in the elevator after the sneak preview, as if lots of documentation exists about the wardrobes of the gods. She added: "I guess that's what we deserve for using free tickets we got at a Blackhawks game.”

Ifs Games Doubt Design Deserve Awful Accurate Tickets Oscars Costumes Wardrobe Sneak Elevators Nominations Documentation Preview Blackhawks

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.”

Ifs Men Mind Humans Ideas Self Today Doubt Doctrine Accomplished Human Mind Rulers Dictator Ruthless Utilitarianism Regimentation

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.”

Ifs Long Two Doubt Changed Long Time Thirds No Doubt Senate Amendments Monogamy Acquiescence Constitutional Amendments

Author:Thomas A. Bailey

“Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it.”

Ifs Ideas Dies Born Doubt Logic Ultimate Conviction Absurd

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“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.”

Ifs Needs Moments Three Levels Doubt No Doubt Get Back Strengthening Squad

Author:Steven Gerrard

“Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.”

Ifs Looks Children Littles Eye Spirit Doubt Creation Hunger Passionate Gentle Deliberate Children Love

Author:Gary Holland

“When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.”

Ifs World Needs Space Doubt Studios Block Outside World

Author:Adam Leipzig

“I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.”

Ifs Doubt Atheist Frank Pope

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans Looks Different Term Human Beings Liberty Doubt Type Approach Determine Deny Defense Be Good Look Up Justified Asian Extremism

Author:Malcolm X

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”

People Ifs Knows World Giving Feels Certain Ability Doubt Limits Behavior Loyalty Devotion Obligation Justify Assured

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.”

Ifs Age Spirit Choices Doubt Masters Ought Pages No Doubt Volume Entry

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy.”

“Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.”

Ifs States Done Justice Doubt Higher Court Finals Proof Supreme No Doubt Proportion Supreme Court Infallible Reversal

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“The Seal, she lounges like a bride,Much too docile, there's no doubt;Madame Récamier, on side,(if such she has), and bottom out.”

Ifs Sides Doubt Bottom No Doubt Brides Seals Docile

Book:Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs

Source: Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs

“I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.”

Ifs Looks Wish Doubt If I Could

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.”

Ifs Needs Belief Accepting Doubt

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.”

Ifs Thinking Sex Differences Emotion Doubt Effects Elements Feminist Restaurants Academic Aggression Hormones Time To Think Libido Sex Differences

Author:Camille Paglia

“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.”

“There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.”

Ifs Men Hands Would Be Space Doubt Feet Figures Red Constitution Dear Confusion Burned Centre Filling Glare Tinder

Author:Anthony Trollope

“With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.”

Ifs Heart Wish Doubt Feet Ill Touching Fragrance Sweetest Herbs Bruises Confessing

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”

Ifs Doe Order Teach Doubt Conditions Cry Supreme Absurd Certainty Pleasant Immense Dependence Recipes Impossibility Admirable There Is No God Audacity Flour Eels

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Whole Funny I Believe Doubt Havens Shadow Woods Offense Chuck Woodchucks

Author:Tim Allen

“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.”

“If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?”

People Ifs Giving Littles Made Common Mistake Doubt Honest Return Taxes Benefits Assuming Complexes Common Sense Code Benefit Of The Doubt Tax Returns

Book:Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

“I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.”

Ifs Should Real Seems Law Answers Situation Clear Doubt Authority Debate Arise Torture No Doubt Bombs Law Enforcement Enforcement Legal System

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.”

People Ifs Trying War Film Doubt Periods Historical Genuine Civil War No Doubt Accurate

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.”

Ifs Needs Believe Persons Running Values Asks Wealth Powerful Doubt Fame India Democratic Prosperity Ask Me Dictatorship Concentrating Powerful Person Democratic Values

Author:Narendra Modi

“The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.”

Ifs Thinking Government Ability Party Doubt Policy Tasks Strategy British Labour Diminish Historic Alliances Irresponsible Programmes Nato Labour Party

Author:Richard Perle

“Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.”

Ifs Men Father Doubt Forgiving Brave Remembered No Doubt Makers Survived Bulls Posterity Brave Man Forgetful Indictment Agamemnon

Author:Boyle Roche

“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

Ifs Common Study Doubt Records Evolution Evidence Proof Strongest Ancestor Dna Fossils Living Things Descent Lingering Dna Evidence

Author:Francis Collins

“Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?”

Ifs World Should Doe Matter Force Perfect Numbers Doubt Prove Universal Infinite Boxes Thrown Unlimited Probability Astonishing Dice Calculus Mould Forces Of Nature

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.”

Ifs Looks Philosophy Eye Values Fall Doubt Decided Ultimate Nerves Nothingness Lectures Resumes Ominous Hydra

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.”

Ifs Purpose Strong Doubt Argument Weak No Doubt Coercion Mould

Book:Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin

Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”

Ifs Believe Belief My Own Opinion Doubt Plenty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.”

Ifs Mind Doubt Relation Moved No Doubt Negotiation Cuba Assassination

Author:William Attwood

“All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!”

Ifs Trying Stills Hard Doubt Hard Work Achievement Harder Great Success When In Doubt

Author:Brian Tracy

“I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.”

Ifs Knows Feels Strong Lines Doubt Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Excitement Instant Brown Lakes Fishing Panic Rainbow Brooks Trout Salmon

Author:Ed Weeks

“If you think of thoughts of success and back them up with hard work, then you will be a winner. If you cherish doubts, negative thoughts, then you won't be a winner at all.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Success Careers Doubt Hard Work Buddhism Negative Winner Cherish Negative Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

Doubt Quotes

Related topics

Doubt Quotes