When In Doubt Quotes

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

When you doubt, abstain.

The worst is over without a doubt.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

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

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

When in doubt, try nutrition first.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?