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“There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.”

Doubt Influence Importance Institutions No Doubt Prize Worthwhile

Author:Keith O'Brien

“The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.”

Has Beens Problem Form Doubt Economics Direct Importance Population Doctrine Absent

Author:Thomas Malthus

“There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.”

Thinking Desire Doubt Logic Importance Practicals No Doubt

Book:Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences

Source: Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences

“I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.”

World Littles Made Whole Community Family Doubt Economic Subjects Serious Equal Members Economics Importance Relation Consideration Units Economic Status

Author:Eleanor Rathbone

“Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.”

Littles Persons Doubt Inspire Trust Importance Confidentiality

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

“No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.”

Jesus Doubt Figures Importance Historical Notion Enormous No Doubt Historical Figure

Author:Peter O'Toole

“Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

“Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.”

“Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.”

“Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.”

Should Sometimes Doubt Our Lives Happenings Conscious Importance Unconscious Significance Woe

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.”

Order Found Rooms Doubt Progress Ignorance Importance Paramount Uncertainty And Doubt

Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.”

Thinking World Writing Doubt Importance

Author:Frederick Busch