“There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.” BitsDoubtProfoundSpit Author:Paul Anka
“Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.” WaySelfValuesDoubtProfoundSelf-doubt Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.” GivingMindSelfTermSecretDoubtProfoundComplexesHumbleRealisticFaith In GodEliminatingSelf-doubtFaith In YourselfInfirmity Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.” DoubtCriticismProfoundConventionsSkepticism Author:George Santayana
“The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.” PeopleImportantBookIdeasDifferentJobsPurposeFictionOpinionDoubtWonderfulMysterySubjectsDivineStrangeTreatsProfoundExplanationRemoveProvidenceSageExplainingDiscussingDivine ProvidenceDifferent Opinions Author:Maimonides
“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.” SpiritualMotivationFoundGrowsGrowthImaginationDoubtPromiseEgoProfoundIdeologyCertaintyExpansionTruismNew KnowledgeDispelling Author:James Hollis
“The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.” KindDifferentHumanityAnimalTalkingDoubtHumilityParticularCreaturesCapacityCrisisProfoundSpeciesDisasterSensitiveNo DoubtDifferent ThingsCatastropheVersusExtinctionCalamityHomo Sapiens Author:Cornel West
“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.” FeelsWellsSometimesSeemsFacesWorkDoubtDutyConscienceProfoundSatisfactionFollowingSuperiorsEmptinessMidstSpontaneousObeyingEnnuiSneerFatality Author:Gustave Flaubert
“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.” GivingFirstsHumansMomentsHopeDoubtBirthHeroProfoundCertaintySoilHopelessHeroicAbsurdityHopelessnessWithout HopeDoubt And CertaintyHopes In LifeDon't Give Up Hope Author:Vaclav Havel
“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?” MenMayAbleDoubtPoetOughtDifficultyProfoundSolveTreasureGreat MenWord Of GodVersesRenowned Author:Charles Spurgeon