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“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.”

Ifs Believe Doe Two Hands Doubt Essentials Vices Disaster Rational Faculty Vice Versa

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.”

Matter Reading Realizing Doubt Changed Revolution Essentials Russia Fallen Soviet Regimes Gogol

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.”

Men Needs Creativity Doubt Essentials Good Times

Book:Lateral thinking for management: a handbook

Source: Lateral thinking for management: a handbook

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”

Ifs Way Firsts Found Religious Effort Darkness Doubt Wise Childhood Essentials Approach Simplicity Determine Gods Will Thick Impress Simplify Babe Prudent Candor

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.”

“Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.”

May Stills Sometimes Would Be Today Faith Doubt Tomorrow Essentials Elements Separation Certainty Conquer Indifference Participation Conqueror

Book:Dynamics of Faith

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.”

Men World Reason Facts Lying Games Easy Waiting Animal Emotion Situation Doubt Saws Planets Creatures Essentials Clothes Losing Lays Species Vain Encounters Our World Apes Gorillas

Author:Pierre Boulle

“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.”

“Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.”

Play Values Sports Justice Doubt Essentials Fairs Window Crucial Fair Play Propagation

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.”

Shows Doubt Essentials

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.”

Thinking Knows Made Body Doubt Progress Essentials Moved Connected Core No Doubt

Author:Eve Ensler