#doubt

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle. ↗

— Terry Porter

#battle #big #doubt #going #hurdle

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#always #answers #anyway #doubt #goes

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#doubts #everybody #full #how #realise

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#corrected #distinction #distinctions #doubt #entitled

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#chairman #committed #dangerous #dangerous place #doubt

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#could #doubt #driven #every #fear

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#limit #only #our #realization #today

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#communicate #consensus #development #doubts #explain

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies