Doubt Quotes - Page 16

• I jumped in the river, what did I see?
  Black-eyed angels swam with me
  A moon full of stars and astral cars
  And all the figures I used to see
  All my lovers were there with me
  All my past and futures
  And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
  There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Angel, Past

  "Song: 'Pyramid Song'". 2001.

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• If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

  Harold Town

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

  Hyman Rickover

  Successful, Work Out, Temptation

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

  Kurt Hahn

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.

  Tim Purpura

  Decision, Trying, Roger

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• While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Practice, Ongoing, Movement

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• I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

  Nikolay Semyonov

  Art, Icons, Digital

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• Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Lying, Giving, Should

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

  Mancur Olson

  Political, Unions, Littles

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.136, Harvard University Press

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• There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

  Alfred Tarski

  Thinking, Desire, Logic

  Alfred Tarski (2013). “Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

  Charles Baudouin

  Long, Trying, East

  Charles Baudouin (1945). “Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School”

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• Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

  Norman Lear

  Partisanship, Activity

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Party, Thinking

  "39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• If you think of thoughts of success and back them up with hard work, then you will be a winner. If you cherish doubts, negative thoughts, then you won't be a winner at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Hard Work, Buddhism

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• I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Atheism, Asking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.358, University of Georgia Press

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• Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

  Federico Fellini

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

  Chris Osgood

  Hockey, Winning, Years

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• Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wisdom, Home, Reality

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• In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Views, Together, Trouble

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• Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

  Harold Lasswell

  Mind, Atheism, Dogma

  Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.

  Tina Weymouth

  People, Giving, Benefits

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Wife, Faithful

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• Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

  Eric Bana

  Rowing, Periods, Hardest

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• Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

  Kevin Spacey

  Matter, Way, Film

  "Q&A – A Conversation With Casino Jack’s Kevin Spacey". www.amc.com. December 2010.

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• A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Dream, Strong

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