#doubt

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. ↗

— Lou Reed

#created #doubt #great #i #know

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ↗

— David Ricardo

#comparatively #discoveries #discovery #doubt #duration

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Anne Rice

#am #american #american writers #definitely #doubt

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid. ↗

— Ann Richards

#america #doubt #down #mind #people

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#doubt #eat #real #real world #start

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. ↗

— James H. Boren

#charge #delegate #doubt #mumble #ponder

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#direction #doubt #element #great #her

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#cross #doubt #interpretation #new #new testament