The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust.… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. — William James Copy Share Image
