“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.” PeopleShouldCareUsedHeavenGrowsInterestWonderDoubtAtheismEffectsDoctorsMarkPositive AtheismLawyerSicknessPriestsWrathLawsuit Author:Pierre Bayle
“His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.” WonderStepsDoubtBaseballFadesStep Up Author:Mickey Mantle
“Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.” PeopleIfsSilenceQualityWonderDoubtStupidMouthsSilentOpeningEnigmaticKeeping Silent Book:The Spiral Path Source: The Spiral Path
“No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.” FirstsBelieveDoeFactsSimpleWonderDoubtHarderMarvelousDiminishPresentationEvoke Author:Lucretius
“I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.” WonderDoubtNagging Author:P. W. Botha
“When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.” YearsLooksArtSelfAbleDesireStrongSexWonderDoubtPaintingPaintSelf-doubt Author:Miriam Schapiro
“If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.” IfsThinkingFeelsMindLooksFeelingsHeavenStarsWonderDoubtGraceCapableFlowEndureLook UpMindlessPower Of God Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” InspirationalInspiringBusinessWonderKnowledgeDoubtRoots Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.” MeanWonderDoubtInnovationAweSkepticismInquirySymmetry Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . . and wonder: what is going to happen today? Will anything happen? Will the angel come today?” SometimesHandsLightHappensTodayWonderMorningStudyDoubtAngelCoffeeThings HappenClimbsReverenceDreadStairsHabitualApprehensionIncenseMugMorning CoffeeCoffee Mug Author:Gail Godwin
“An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.” YearsFirstsThreeWonderVisionLordPrinciplesDoubtHappenedExampleTaughtCommunicationThings HappenProphetUnusualThree YearsTaught UsUnusual Things Author:Boyd K. Packer
“When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.” WayPlayFormImaginationNaturalWonderIssuesDoubtCreationShapesRevelationsConstructionComposerEchoesArrangementsDoubtedFluxNatural FormsTableau Author:Russell Sherman
“I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.” IfsThinkingHumansLongStillsHuman BeingsWonderDoubtEvolutionLong Time Author:Edward Albee
“One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.” WarMatterGovernmentSchoolWonderDoubtTroubleOne ThingChessTyrantsPermissionCommitteesCastlesWhen In DoubtIndianapolis Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.” PeopleMindDifferentSelfEyeVoiceWonderVisionCreativeDoubtSeeingExpressionPersonalityMirrorsPhotographCastsPonderingSelf-doubtVortexCreative Expression Author:Keith Murray
“I was going through some stuff regarding my mom and dad. There was 30 years difference [between them], so when you hear the lyric, "Girl I love you / You know I do / And I do not doubt / That you love me too / But you're so young / Your life has just begun", that's what I was wondering. They were married for 44 years.” KnowsYearsYoungGirlStuffDifferencesWonderDoubtLove YouMomDadMarriedMy MomMom And Dad Author:Andy Kim
“After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.” IfsYearsStillsShowsLastsDecisionWonderDoubtMinutesFashionCreatingRight ThingCollectionsQuestioningLast MinuteFashion Show Author:Sonia Rykiel