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“Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.”

Doubt Civilization Benefits Vanity Impulse Modesty

Book:George Washington: The Image and the Man

Source: George Washington: The Image and the Man

“We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.”

Doubt Errors Trials Certainty Impulse Resisting Trial And Error

Book:Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Source: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

“Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.”

People Life Kind Moments Values Term Work Doubt Share Mets Activity Capacity Available Insight Impulse Unexpected Internals Dedication Fierce Angst

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.”

Ifs World Hard Reality Jobs Mother Enemy Doubt Hatred Impulse No Doubt Introducing Representatives Realism Adoration

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.”

Knows Spirituality Passion Belief Levels Doubt Sky Mysterious Evolve Impulse There Is No God Belief Systems Spiritual Awareness Who God Is

Author:Andrew Cohen

“While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.”

Way Mind Doubt Educational Driven Impulse

Author:Terence

“When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.”

Mind States Sides Doubt Impulse Uncertainty Smallest Uncertain

Author:Terence

“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature”

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.”

Source: Totem and Taboo

“Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.”

Mean Self Love Is Doubt Sacrifice Impulse No Doubt Gratification True Love Is Thoughtfulness Self Gratification

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.”

Trying Doe Spiritual Sound Realizing Doubt Stones Treats Patterns Conviction Woods Impulse Planes Sculpture Sequence Polish Mold Lyrical Craftsman Fugue

Author:Dylan Thomas