One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Most people are strongly wired to be intolerant of uncertainty. We experience it as pain, fear, anxiety, and doubt. When faced with… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there… — Socrates Copy Share Image
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit… No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Fearlessness is generated when you can appreciate uncertainty, when you have faith in the impossibility of these interconnected components remaining static and… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This… — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
“You have to plant doubt […] It’s like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is… — Sybil Claiborne Copy Share Image
In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
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