“They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.” IfsThinkingLittlesMadeDifferentDoneBitsLinesDoubtChangedBuddhismLittle BitSexualityCasanova Author:Frederick Lenz
“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.” MenKindHas BeensMadePainInterestingMoralDoubtFoolAngelDenyObligationCould Have BeenMost InterestingImmuneMoral Obligation Author:Mark Twain
“Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.” IfsMadeVirtueDoubtHumilityPrideDevilAngelDemonNo Doubt Author:John Climacus
“I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.” IfsWayMadeMovingMistakeDoubtBest WayMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardMade A MistakeWay ForwardJust Keep MovingJust Keep Moving ForwardConstantly Moving Author:John Frusciante
“Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.” IfsMadeDecisionDoubtEfficientEfficiencyCorrectness Author:John Cleese
“Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.” PeopleMenHumansDoeMadeRunningPoliticsLostTalkingDoubtSpeechVoteHarmBryan Author:Will Rogers
“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?” IfsMenMindMayDoeMadeIdeasSoulEndsAbleSpiritualPerfectDoubtSubjectsMaterialsPureProveCreaturesAll ThingsStonesCorruptionSuperiorsImmortalDiscouragingGrandeurStrength Of MindReptiles Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.” PeopleMadeDoubtHappenedEnglandCatholicDearAccidentsPriestsVillageManifestMidnightVengeanceRoman CatholicCatholic Religion Author:Bill Vaughan
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.” MadeEffortPrinciplesDoubtEffectsStyleDependsGeniusArchitectureGreekNo DoubtInfinityExecutionGothicGothic Architecture Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.” WorldWayHumansHas BeensMadeCountryHardMotherRaceKnownDestinyDoubtHuman NatureAccomplishGreat ThingsOur CountrySchemesNativity Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.” MindMadeRealPrinciplesClearDoubtStuckNo Doubt Author:Milton Friedman