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“We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.”

Want Results Doubt Seeing Experiments Arise Certainty No Doubt Thorough

Author:Carl Jung

“I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.”

Ifs Should Real Seems Law Answers Situation Clear Doubt Authority Debate Arise Torture No Doubt Bombs Law Enforcement Enforcement Legal System

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.”

Thinking Want Kind Doubt Habit Letters Arise

Book:The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends

“It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.”

Self Secret Doubt Easier Conscience Arise Justify Bosoms

Book:He that will not when he may

Source: He that will not when he may

“There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.”

Persons Success Lines Levels Successful Doubt Percent Commitment Negative Tasks Arise Winner Performing Recognizing Negative Thoughts Successful Person

Author:Nicole Haislett

“Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.”

Way Firsts May Sometimes Problem Seems Difficult Interesting Doubt Arise Logical Intuitive

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.”

Mean Two Spiritual Understanding Practice Doubt Teacher Possibility Aspect Determination Difficulty Sticks Work Out Arise Clarity Related Seats Spiritual Work

Author:Jack Kornfield

“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”

Ifs Way Feels May Matter Choices Term Results Powerful Situation Doubt Influence Consequence Increase Arise Frustrated Powerless Decrease Powerlessness There Is Always A Way

Author:Blaine Lee Pardoe