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“What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!”

May Doubt Fields Ocean Notion Hypothesis Amusement Avoided Labyrinth

Book:The works of George Berkeley

Source: The works of George Berkeley

“There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.”

May Philosophy Results Common Doubt Reflection Common Sense Skepticism Scepticism

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.”

Men May Spiritual Law Order Speak Nature Doubt Worship No Doubt Moses Idolatry Ingenuity

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2

“The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.”

Men World Needs May Said Christian Faces Speak Voice Religious Doubt Fronts Raises Plant Folks Determined Protest Bloody Abstraction Simplest Fuzzy

Author:Albert Camus

“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

Ifs Men Years May Use Might Asks My Own Answers Doubt Policy Fields Flower Late Garden Conviction Strokes Domain Inheritance Wheat Ballots Pastures

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.”

“A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.”

Mind May Matter Whole Body America Time Sound Change Challenges Ability Accepting Doubt Acceptance Citizens Loyalty Cease Doctrine Instant Officials Republic Loyal Questioning

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.”

Men Believe May Ideas Feelings Half Doubt Trust Highest Logical Skepticism Flavor Sleeves Scoundrels

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.”

“Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.”

“It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.”

Ifs May Said Doubt Journey Vices Host Life Journey Lodges

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.”

Ifs May Long Time Doubt Greater Buddhism Perception Long Time Enlightenment Good Things Caught Conviction Zen Buddhism

Book:Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

“We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.”

Knows May Soul God Universe Three Father Doubt Plans Mystery Divine Ought Solutions All Things Sublime Compensation God Is Love Three Words Great Father

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Misgive that you may not mistake.”

May Mistake Doubt

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'”

Ifs Want Should Humans May Reason Care Lost Issues Doubt Internet Integrity Achievement Argument Breaths Silly Accomplishment No Doubt Free Speech Who Cares Pledge Milton Censoring

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.”

People Ifs Giving Believe May Persons Ends I Believe Doubt Conversation Benefits I Believe In Rude Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Michele Bachmann

“Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.”

People Ifs Should May Done Philosophy Political Pay Half Doubt Arms Taxes Equal Economics Thirds Abuse Substance No Doubt Gross

Author:Adam Smith

“Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I may spend his time in vain. And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”

Knows Mind Wells May Mean Seems Behinds Doubt Written Wind Draws Fairs Letters Rounds Lists Vain Necks Diamond Hunts Deer Fainting Noli Me Tangere

Author:Thomas Wyatt

“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]

“I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this 'more than I can handle.' Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.”

People Giving May Doe I Can Shows Asks Accepting Doubt Grace Our Lives Glory Shining Handle This Life No Doubt I Have Learned Faithfulness Shining Through

Author:Katie Davis

“Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition- will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is what all heroes (including you) are here to do.”

World May Littles Self Facts Helping Hands Life Is Doubt Imagine Hero Including Despite Saving Opposition True Self Fatigue Save The World Being Your True Self

Author:Martha Beck

“Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.”

Needs May Doubt Policy Europe Unions Details No Doubt Coordination

Author:Gerhard Schroder

“There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.”

“Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

Ifs Men Mind May Light Lying Imagination Pleasure Poor Numbers Opinion Taken Doubt Add Vain Melancholy Diamond Pearls Mixtures Flattering Valuation

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do the same thing, let them be warned: ELECTRICITY IS VERY DANGEROUS. Never play with old batteries! Never put your plug in a strange socket! And if you are in any doubt about the voltage of the current where you are living, ask a major appliance.”

Source: The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances

“Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.”

Men May Doe Doubt Mankind Here And There

Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis

“It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.”

People Should May Hard Sound Voice Doubt Expression Months Crash Recessions Stock Price

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.”

Men Wells May Littles Facts Able Past Social Doubt Depends Exercise Social Life Greatest Success

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“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

“[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].”

World May Real Self Levels Moral Novel Doubt Real World Introducing Espionage Self-doubt

Author:John le Carre

“I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.”

Ifs World May Study Doubt Fields Produce One Day Everyday Shakes Everyday Life Theoretical

Book:Tales from the White Hart

Source: Tales from the White Hart

“The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.”

Wells May Two Law Natural Views Clear Doubt Weight Constitution Aids Practicals Interpretation Construction Unnecessary Entitled Employed Resorts Ambiguity Framers Collateral

Author:Melville Fuller

“He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.”

May Doubt Doubted

Author:Robert Boyle

“The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.”

May Said Faces Doubt Terrible Doctors Blind Dare Profession Medical Alternatives No Doubt Conspiracy Shortcomings Medical Profession Blind Trust

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.”

Men May Mean Long Has Beens Taken Doubt Intellectual Majority Dare Granted Reasoning Free Man Taken For Granted Intellectual Freedom

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.”

Men Heart May Pleasure Doubt Pride My Heart Deserve Letters Awards Reverence Nobel

Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.”

People World May I Can Important Doubt My Family Hollywood Hobbies

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“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

“With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!”

May Bigs Lying Loses Forever Doubt Stuck

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?”

Men May Able Doubt Poet Ought Difficulty Profound Solve Treasure Great Men Word Of God Verses Renowned

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories...but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.”

“If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.”

Thinking Men Wells May Reason Christian Doubt Serious Thoughtful Articles Creeds Consolation Revolt Inconsistency Irrationality Conjecture Improbability

Book:The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...

Source: The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...

“This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.”

People Thinking World Should May Eye Young Guy Doubt Player Seeing Special Talent Fronts Calling Nervous No Doubt This Guy Best Players Messi Special Talents

Author:Gary Neville

“I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.”

People May Country Father Nations Boys Doubt Skills Safe Bravery Blue Raised Loyalty Devotion Gods Will Our Country Rely Refuge Oppressed Our Father Asylums Downtrodden

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.”

May Spirit Doubt Holy Argument Holy Spirit Remove Convicts

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.”

Ifs May Stills Lying Night Walks Doubt Bed Safe Ghost Vulnerable Over You All Night Blanket Daylight Ankles

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

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