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“But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.”

Mind Firsts Path Doubt Awareness Strange Scene Focused

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!”

Years Firsts Past Joy Lost Heaven Realizing Forget Mistake Doubt Cry Tears Inspire Comfort Cost Eternity Gods Will No Doubt Heavenly Thank God Wipe Forget The Past

Author:David Berg

“In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.”

Firsts Humans Remember Human Beings Numbers Doubt Periods Disappointment Lawyer Distress Cabbage

Book:Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960

Source: Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960

“The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

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Author:Nigel Rees

“He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.”

Firsts Humans Feelings Hate Doubt Capable Negative Shame Guilt Males Zone Contempt Twilight Disgusting Trapped Halfway Disgrace Apes Twilight Zone Negative Feelings

Author:Valerie Solanas

“The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“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

“I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.”

“When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Earth My Own Sun Doubt Heard Atheism Higher Lips Conviction Wander No Doubt Rays Caves Luther Noon Happier Life

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.”

Firsts Important Problem Jobs President Doubt Office Corners No Doubt Anticipate What's Important Manuals Around The Corner

Author:Barack Obama

“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

“Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.”

Firsts Book Moments Seems Past Grows Break Doubt Impossible Goes On Accomplished Discouraged Beginners New Books

Book:Force of Circumstance: Hard times

Source: Force of Circumstance: Hard times

“The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.”

Mind Firsts Kind Nature Realizing Accepting Steps Practice Doubt Possibility Ready Needed Habit Empty Originals Innocence Experts Emptiness Flash Inquiry Beginners

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”

Ifs Firsts Art Language Born Doubt Fashion Strange Concepts Garden Advertising No Doubt Repetition Immoral Eden Advertisements Garden Of Eden Figs Salesmanship Untruthfulness

Author:Freya Stark

“It's not just back-to-back Super Bowls - it's back-to-back Super Bowls in his first three years, it's back-to-back Super Bowls climbing over the backs of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning... If Russell Wilson wins back-to-back Super Bowls, there is no doubt it puts him amongst the top.”

Ifs Years Firsts Three Winning Doubt Nfl No Doubt Climbing Three Years Toms Bowls Super Bowl Wilson Brady Peyton

Author:Michael Irvin

“The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way through all the revolutions of kingdoms and the vicissitudes of the race; receiving new forms, but always identical in spirit; and, finally, expanding and embracing in one great brotherhood the whole family of man! Who can doubt that such a religion was from God?”

Source: Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity

“When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.”

Firsts Book Stories Doubt Adventure Rivers Extraordinary Tales Exploration Amazon Descent Rainforest Theodore Amazon Rainforest

Author:Candice Millard

“Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.”

Giving Firsts Clear Doubt Commandments Propositions Doubted Unqualified

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.”

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

“It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.”

Knows Firsts Know How Doubt Angel Dancing Flying No Doubt Dancer

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.”

Firsts Believe Doe Facts Simple Wonder Doubt Harder Marvelous Diminish Presentation Evoke

Author:Lucretius

“In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.”

Firsts Views Common Cases Doubt Honest Duty Messages Ordinary Observation Dishonesty Deliberation Balaam

Book:The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

Source: The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

“Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.”

“And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?”

Ifs Inspirational Firsts Reason Lying Found Religious Doubt Acceptance Depends Ultimate Mere Mortals Outcomes Trusted Retreat God's Love Conditional Mere Mortals

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”

Giving Firsts Humans Moments Hope Doubt Birth Hero Profound Certainty Soil Hopeless Heroic Absurdity Hopelessness Without Hope Doubt And Certainty Hopes In Life Don't Give Up Hope

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.”

Thinking Men Firsts Believe Said Doubt Progress He Man Womb Cradle

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.”

“There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.”

Ifs Firsts States Reason Lasts Doubt Surrender No Doubt

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.”

Mind Firsts Humans Littles Humanity Next Human Beings Doubt Planets Achievement Mars Landing

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.”

Want Inspirational Firsts Christian Religious Doubt Deeds Temptation Orthodox Good Deeds

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Firsts Ideas Character Past Science Consciousness Doubt Conscious Army Originals Every Man Doctrine Native Elephants Sweetness Drunkenness Whiteness Hardness

Author:John Locke

“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts May Wish Differences Ability Doubt Achievement Accomplish Every Man Unlimited

Book:Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

“[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.”

Firsts Made Doubt Opening No Doubt Banking Loan

Author:James Grant

“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

“I'm not one of those artists who doubts that they made dope-ass records. From the first record to now, each record has gotten better. I started dope, so I've just gotten doper and doper and dopest and super dope.”

Firsts Made Artist Doubt Records Ass Dope

Author:Killer Mike

“If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.”

Ifs Firsts Christian Belief Christianity Doubt Proof

Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.”

Firsts Law Doubt Quotations When In Doubt Bernard Shaw

Book:Mark my words: great quotations and the stories behind them

Source: Mark my words: great quotations and the stories behind them

“When in doubt, try nutrition first.”

Trying Firsts Doubt Nutrition When In Doubt

Author:Roger Williams

“To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.”

Men Firsts May Today Action Past Principles Doubt Fool Tomorrow Mark Consistent Civilized Refuge Consistency

Author:Hyman Rickover

“What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.”

Feels Firsts Loses Ability Doubt Effects Eggs Chickens Explosions Feels Right Snowball Snowball Effect

Author:Lance Berkman

“As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.”

Firsts Ideas Asks Causes Views Doubt Majors Opposites Errors Unfair Misconception Unbelief Always Wrong Mistreatment

Author:Os Guinness

“Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.”

Firsts Stills Government Jobs Fighting Doubt Cutting Duty Citizens Easier Constitution Intention Corners Priorities No Doubt Good Intentions Cutting Corners

Author:Wesley Pruden

“I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .”

“An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.”

Years Firsts Three Wonder Vision Lord Principles Doubt Happened Example Taught Communication Things Happen Prophet Unusual Three Years Taught Us Unusual Things

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Looks Sometimes Suffering Doubt Majors First Time Riding Crash Bike Looking Forward Momentum Your Mom

Author:Roz Savage

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.”

Ifs Firsts Two Three Worry Doubt Doors Regret Thirds Meetings Villain

Author:Suzy Kassem