#doubt

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#intelligent #problems #smart #stupid #world

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. ↗

— Albert Speer

#concentration #doubt #keep #means #menace

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

#attained #certainty #christ #conviction #doubts

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#charity #doubtful #liberty #necessary #things

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#doubt #love #never #speaking #terms

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#cloud #dissipate #doubt #figures #never

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#best #difficulty #doubt #europe #four

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt