I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion… As well might we expect a patient to recover without food… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My head is filled with things I think I should be doing or should've done already. I slow down because I doubt… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
“I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge and he who encourages them, who those not slay them, thwarts himself at… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“The most frightening part of the confusion, however, was the uncertainty as to whether it was the result of a man trying… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either.… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always. — Allan Weisbecker Copy Share Image
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
