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“Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.”

Knows Heart Young Values Hours Know How Doubt Blessing Disappointment Various Trials Nurse Amiable Admonition

Book:The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

Source: The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

“It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.”

Humans Successful Doubt Evidence Work Out Contrary Despite Temptation Managers Inclination Things Will Work Out

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.”

Wells States Life Is Doubt Findings Companion Matched

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

Ifs Common Study Doubt Records Evolution Evidence Proof Strongest Ancestor Dna Fossils Living Things Descent Lingering Dna Evidence

Author:Francis Collins

“The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.”

Writing Sound Doubt Definitions Mathematical No Doubt Logical Owing Reassuring

Book:From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays

Source: From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays

“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.”

“I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!”

Looks Law Doubt Needles

Author:Edith M. Thomas

“We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.”

Trying Process Decision Doubt No Doubt Roger Thought Process

Author:Tim Purpura

“The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.”

World Helping Community Doubt Theory Development Threat International China Absurd Absurdity Harmonious International Community

Author:Ye Xiaowen

“Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.”

Creative Doubt Strategy Nurture

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“When in doubt, scribble.”

Doubt When In Doubt Scribbles

Author:Jean Wilson

“I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.”

Art Artist Doubt Particular Photographer Contemporary No Doubt Digital Icons Contemporary Art

Author:Nikolay Semyonov

“But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.”

“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.”

Littles Political Force Doubt Products Activity Majors Labor Function Regard Unions Significant Labor Union

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

“Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?”

Ifs World Should Doe Matter Force Perfect Numbers Doubt Prove Universal Infinite Boxes Thrown Unlimited Probability Astonishing Dice Calculus Mould Forces Of Nature

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.”

People Thinking Way Humans Mean Different Ends Might Speak Human Beings Ability Doubt Dog Standing Communicate Visuals No Doubt Fur Unfriendly Ability To Speak Communicating With Others

Book:Micromessaging

Source: Micromessaging

“There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.”

Thinking Desire Doubt Logic Importance Practicals No Doubt

Book:Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences

Source: Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.”

Facts Doubt Observation Interpretation Questionable

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.”

Ifs Looks Philosophy Eye Values Fall Doubt Decided Ultimate Nerves Nothingness Lectures Resumes Ominous Hydra

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”

Spiritual Motivation Found Grows Growth Imagination Doubt Promise Ego Profound Ideology Certainty Expansion Truism New Knowledge Dispelling

Author:James Hollis

“If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.”

Ifs Purpose Strong Doubt Argument Weak No Doubt Coercion Mould

Book:Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin

Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin

“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.”

Men Individual Doubt Judgment Extremes Cruelty Vague Decency Hesitation Stirring Ruthlessness

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.”

Doubt Fire Atheism Invention Skepticism

Author:Thomas Huxley

“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”

Mind Humans Wells Children Human Beings Doubt Materials Adults Built Philosophical Constant Chaos Myth Tales Landscape Fairy Legends Construction Fairy Tale Shelter Components Siege

Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

“There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons -- and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.”

Way Chance Space Doubt Benefits Resources Available Trials No Doubt Horizon Hunters Boundless Tribulation Trials And Tribulations Taming New Horizons Unmasking

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.”

People Want Kind Doubt Involved Areas Impact

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

War Grows Doubt

Book:Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction

Source: Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction

“What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.”

Made Political Interest Doubt Conflict Blind Made It No Doubt Voters Senate Blindness Qualified Conflict Of Interest Blind Trust

Author:Kathleen Clark

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”

Ifs Believe Belief My Own Opinion Doubt Plenty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Years Humans May Three Asks Sex Human Beings Doubt Five Victory Slave No Doubt Adoption Grandchildren Counting Bans Homophobia Unspeakable Inexplicable My Grandchildren

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”

Knows Littles Education Knowledge Doubt Increase Doubted When In Doubt

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.”

Mean Jesus Sides Walks Doubt No Doubt Wilder

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.”

Literature Doubt Praying Conviction

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.”

Doubt Promise Active Gods Will Assurance Lack Of Confidence

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his successes and advantages for Russia historians shall absolutely note the fact of his not altering the constitution, for he created a precedent. And afterwards, no matter who might become president, it shall be extremely difficult to alter the constitution exactly on that point. Extremely difficult.”

Knows Matter Facts Might Difficult President Know How Doubt Advantage Constitution Notes Russia No Doubt Historian Putin Precedent

Author:Vladimir Posner

“Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.”

People World Mind Body Answers Doubt Seeing Promise Understood Ghost Likes Comforting

Author:Michael Marshall Smith

“The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.”

Firsts Father Belief Religious Doubt Saws Source Holy Rivers Function Lakes Religious Belief Victoria Expeditions Nile

Author:John Hanning Speke

“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”

Men May Clear Doubt One Man Doubtful

Author:Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

“Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.”

Looks May Turns Fear Doubt Objects Prove Difficulty Tables Ghost Doctrine Twilight Ghastly

Book:The Recreations of a Country Parson

Source: The Recreations of a Country Parson

“In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.”

Men Eye Law Purpose Strong Results Doubt Wife Expression Consequence No Doubt

Author:William Henry Maule

“We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and faith. Sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. Jumping into the battle does not guarantee victory, but being afraid to try guarantees defeat”

Trying Doe Sometimes Happens Challenges Doubt Victory Battle Approach Defeat Guarantees Diminish Jumping Being Afraid New Challenges Doubt And Fear

Author:Brian Goodell

“Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player”

Doubt Player Rounds Messi

Author:Usain Bolt

“There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.”

Ifs Mind Doubt Relation Moved No Doubt Negotiation Cuba Assassination

Author:William Attwood

“There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.”

People Way Littles Important Stories Doubt Progress Building Bridges Civilisation Civil Engineer Civil Engineering

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.”

May Doubt Trouble Repent

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.”

Men Seems Growing Up Doubt Growing Wall Kings Glory Snow Conquer Conqueror Jon Snow

Book:A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

“More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance.”

Felt Doubt One Thing Kings Performances Brilliant Luther

Author:Ty Burr

“All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!”

Ifs Trying Stills Hard Doubt Hard Work Achievement Harder Great Success When In Doubt

Author:Brian Tracy

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