Doubt Quotes - Page 32

• Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Mind, Mysterious, Language

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• I saw my Lord with the Eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are you?" He answered: "You!"

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Heart, Eye, Saws

  "In the Company of Friends: Dreamwork Within a Sufi Group". Book by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, p. 86, 1994.

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• Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.363, Penguin

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• If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Confidence, Respect, Divinity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Tradition, Easy

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

  P. W. Botha

  Nagging, Wonder

  "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 285), 1994.

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• It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

  Anne Bronte

  Painful, Sincerity, Those We Love

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• Today I sat before the cliff Until the mist and rainbows disappeared I followed the emerald stream Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds At night a bright moon floats in the sky I am free of the busy world There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind

  Hanshan

  Morning, Heart, Moon

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• Someone sits in a mountain vale A robe of clouds, rainbows for tassels The fragrant forest is the place to live The road has been long and difficult With a heart full of doubt and regret A life has passed and nothing has been accomplished Others call it failure I stand alone devoted to this Cold Mountain life

  Hanshan

  Regret, Heart, Clouds

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• The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Strong, Home, Men

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Demon Drink”

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• Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Light, Secret, Intention

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Stubborn, Facts

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.120

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• We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

  Ole Hallesby

  Expression, Giving, Desire

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• Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Courage, Military, War

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• Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

  Mehmed the Conqueror

  Believe, Character, Men

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• When in doubt, initiate. Say yes—to love, to life, to joining in with others. That is how we stay on the right path and, at the same time, elevate humanity.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Love, Time, Joining In

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• There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Lasts, Intellectualism

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Strong, Sex

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• there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Party, Earth, Matter

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• The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dream, Memories, Two

  Paula Gunn Allen (1997). “Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995”

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• NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

  Caryl Churchill

  Nice, Thinking, Feelings

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Top Girls”, p.68, A&C Black

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• If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Integrity, Silly, Issues

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• It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Hate, Confused, Law

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• I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Children, Opportunity, Safe

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