Doubt Quotes - Page 12

• I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

  Jose Saramago

  Loneliness, Men, Doors

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 29), 2003.

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• One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.

  Richard Russo

  Nice, Thinking, Long

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.54, Atlantic Books

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Use

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• I jumped in the river, what did I see?
  Black-eyed angels swam with me
  A moon full of stars and astral cars
  And all the figures I used to see
  All my lovers were there with me
  All my past and futures
  And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
  There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Angel, Past

  "Song: 'Pyramid Song'". 2001.

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• We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.

  Tim Purpura

  Decision, Trying, Roger

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• It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

  Hyman Rickover

  Successful, Work Out, Temptation

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Apre'  s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e  tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Life Is, States, Companion

  1788 Paul et Virginie.

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• 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

  Writing, Sound, Owing

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

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• There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

  Kurt Hahn

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• 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

  Lying, Giving, Should

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

  William Batchelder Greene

  Numbers, Perfect, World

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• I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

  Nikolay Semyonov

  Art, Icons, Digital

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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Clever, Teaching, Reality

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

  Mancur Olson

  Political, Unions, Littles

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.136, Harvard University Press

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• There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

  Alfred Tarski

  Thinking, Desire, Logic

  Alfred Tarski (2013). “Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance.

  Ty Burr

  Kings, Brilliant, Luther

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• There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• 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.

  Ed Weeks

  Strong, Sea, Fishing

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• Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wisdom, Home, Reality

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• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  Elia Kazan

  Organization, Police, Hollywood

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Practice, Ongoing, Movement

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• Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

  Pierre Bayle

  Doctors, Wrath, People

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• It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.

  Richard Carrier

  Atheist, Errors, Self

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• An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Atheism, Agnostic

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• "Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.

  Jim Herrick

  Atheist, Teaching, Atheism

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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