“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

David Levithan book Every Day

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”

David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice

“You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

“A gentleman treats his fellow man with fairness, always giving him the benefit of the doubt.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

“When in doubt, give.”

Björk (1965) Icelandic singer-songwriter

“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest