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Letter "D" » Doubt
«The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.»
Author: Dr. Rollo May
| About:
Commitment,
Doubt
| Keywords:
antagonistic, by no means, commitment, healthiest, relationship, spite, without doubt
«True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant»
«There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.»
«There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Doubt
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«To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Doubt,
Principles
| Keywords:
civilized, doubted, first principle, first principles, The Mark, The Mark of
«The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Advertising,
Doubt
| Keywords:
as such, precept
«Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Religion
| Keywords:
completed, done with, glad, gradual, loss, period, religious, religious belief, religious beliefs, rendered, subject, surprise, The Long, The Process, throughout, unhappy
«Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Doubt,
Juries and Judges,
Past
| Keywords:
conclusions, past times
«To saucy doubts and fears.»
«To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it»
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