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• It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  History, Doubt, Earth

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

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• Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
  Communicated monthly, sit and stare
  At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
  Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

  John Betjeman

  Running, Men, Air

  'Death of King George V' (1937)

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• In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

  Ben Hecht

  Movie, Art, Adventure

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• I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

  Ann Curry

  Thinking, Nbc, People

  "Ann Curry: ‘Am I Not Good Enough?’" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2012.

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• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, "If I was gay, I'd be with him" - you know?

  Garret Dillahunt

  Gay, Men, Sexuality

  "Garret Dillahunt's Triple Play". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. April 24, 2012.

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• All is to be doubted.

  Rene Descartes

  Knowing Who You Are, Who You Are

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• I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

  Doug Flutie

  Senior, School, Thinking

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• Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

  David Hume

  Passion, School, Dancing

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'The Sceptic'

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• It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Men, Today

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• Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Doubt, Charm

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI. 93, 1321.

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• The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

  Peter Abelard

  Keys, Firsts, Questioning

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  So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

  Kevin Durant

  Who I Am, Nba, Mvp

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• There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Effort, Excellence, Melancholy

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• Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Miracle, Belief

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• Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Giving, Doubt, Unqualified

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.322

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• Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

  Elie Wiesel

  Jobs, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

  Howard Nemerov

  Religious, War, Science

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Intelligent, Past

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.392, Broadview Press

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• Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Add, Generations

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• The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the uniform law of life--that death does not touch it. The witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were unprejudiced, unexpectant, incredulous, and their honesty is not doubted even by skeptical criticism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Honesty, Believe

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• Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

  Michael Johnson

  Cocky, Shoes, Gold

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• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  John Locke

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.153, Library of Alexandria

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