“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.” KnowsMenWorldLittlesSometimesMotherFoundFatherFeltDoubtHe ManFilledTerrorChiefsSuspectsDarlingPirateWhimIrritatingRetrospectiveSpoilt Book:Power: A New Social Analysis Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.” MindPhilosophyTodayUniverseReligiousDoubtImpossibleParticularMastersUnderstoodFilledDetailsFeaturesNo DoubtFoundersRemarksPupilsLeonardoReligious PhilosophyFilled In Book:The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe Source: The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
“I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.” KnowsWorldMindSaidDifferentRememberJoyLeftSidesForgetStudyDoubtChangedWalkingStandingFilledEastNever ForgetStomachApartmentStanding OutVeilsKnotsBible StudyIndescribableZealotEast SideUpper East Side Author:Kirsten Powers
“Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.” Life IsSocialImaginationDoubtSolitudeFilledVainSocial LifeWearinessEnnui Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.” KindBookPrayerLossAnswersDoubtViolenceFilledMemorableVulnerabilityBleakGirlhood Author:Rachel Zucker
“The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.” SelfAbilityDoubtFilledEnormousSelf-doubt Author:Stephen Colbert
“Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.” EmotionDoubtFilledCracksMessiMaradonaDoubt Me Author:Diego Simeone
“Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)” WorldWayLooksKindMeanSelfMomentsSeemsFilmDoubtSawsEmotionalPerspectiveProudFilledPhotographNarrativeThat MomentShiftingSelf-doubt Author:Anton Yelchin