The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
Yes, K?l?mas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you K?l?mas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O K?l?mas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.
The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.
As to the Adjective; when in doubt, strike it out
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an I without shame.
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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