Best doubt & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era

“In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.”

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.”

Age Form Doubt Discovery Factors No Doubt Unconscious Psychics Symbolism Credible Memories Dreams Reflections Archetype

Author:Carl Jung

“The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.”

Ifs Age Spirit Choices Doubt Masters Ought Pages No Doubt Volume Entry

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.”

Feels Heart May Soul Age Pain Spirit Dies Doubt Our Lives Failing Creation Flower Breaths Wave Checks Firm Thrill Trembling Frost Messengers Triumphant Keep The Faith Sad Soul

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

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Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”

Children Stills Soul Age Lying Gone Doubt Childhood Drawing Shore Mist Misty

Book:Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.”

Care Age Doubt Effects Vain Idle Caution

Book:The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

“We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.”

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Author:Cargill Gilston Knott

“At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.”

Source: Selected essays

“We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.”

Age Doubt Brands No Doubt

Author:Tom Peters

“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.”

Age Doubt Youth Brave Aging Rainbow Fever Avarice Caprice Fretting Perspiration Hope Love Gout

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851

“Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.”

Way Giving Age Doubt Youth No Doubt

Author:Mason Cooley

“Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.”

Men War Age Religion Christ Steps Courage Doubt Military Deeds Carrie Every Step Discouragement

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.”

Sometimes Age Doubt Environmental Speed No Doubt Consideration Ethical Technological Stewardship Unprecedented

Author:Prince Charles

“I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.”

Writing Years Would Be Age Today Wanted Young Doubt Taught Editors Gifted Young Age Amazing Experiences

Author:Julie Klassen

“The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be that stabbin Dilbert guy.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.”

Ifs Ideas Age Doubt Century Painting Keys Structure Old Age Heroic Locked Modernity Touchstones Cezanne

Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

“If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.”

People Ifs Would Be Care Age Half Cases Doubt Habit Thousand Hundred Doctors Constitution Illness Recovery Former Our Time Latter Discretion Other Half One Half

Author:Petrarch

“Universal WiFi. Without a doubt. I am done with being on the train, not having internet. Or having spotty coverage. It's a fundamental need at this point. It's the frickin' information age! It should be like air! And it doesn't have to be free. I'm a believer in paying for value. Just having it as an option.”

Needs Should Done Age Values Doubt Air Information Internet Universal Fundamentals Train Believer Coverage Information Age

Author:Maria Popova

“The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.”

“There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.”

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age”

Age Doubt Careful Handle Managers No Doubt Tense Present Tense New Future

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.”

Should Age Boys Doubt Five Dog Healthy Normal No Doubt Fifty Forty

Author:Robert Benchley

“Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.”

Years Humans May Littles Long Doe Has Beens Age Past Doubt Possibility Welcome Ice Ice Age Respite

Author:James Taylor

“I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.”

Feels Age Force Behinds Sun Clear Doubt Driving Ice Primaries Reasonable Consistent Orbit Interpreting Driving Force Ice Age Reasonable Doubt

Author:George Kukla

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