Doubt Quotes - Page 25

• No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

  Sarada Devi

  Karma, Past, Suffering

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 361), 2004.

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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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• We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out.

  Edward Kennedy

  Military, Speaks Out, Iraq

  "Official: First wave of troops to Iraq by Jan. 30". www.nbcnews.com. January 9, 2007.

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• The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Writing, Sound, Owing

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1961). “From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.

  Stephen Young

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

  Thomas Malthus

  Real, Law, England

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

  Richard Perle

  Party, Thinking, Government

  The Times, September 25, 1986.

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• Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

  Boyle Roche

  Father, Men, Brave

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• There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

  John Rawls

  Variation, Moral, Geometry

  "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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• One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.

  Richard Russo

  Nice, Thinking, Long

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.54, Atlantic Books

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• I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

  Jose Saramago

  Loneliness, Men, Doors

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 29), 2003.

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Use

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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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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• Apre'  s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e  tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Life Is, States, Companion

  1788 Paul et Virginie.

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• Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

  Francis Collins

  Dna, Records, Fossils

  "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.

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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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• Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Creative, Strategy, Nurture

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• Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Atheism, Denial, Conscious

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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Clever, Teaching, Reality

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1988). “Lectures on Faith”, p.49, Zion's Camp Books

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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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• All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

  Brian Tracy

  Hard Work, Achievement, Trying

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 27, 2011

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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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• 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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• 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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