#doubt

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

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#does #doubt #god #lead #rare

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled. ↗

— Mary Astell

#honour #i #marry #men #none

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

Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#romance #war #death

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

— Anne Baxter

#charity #doubtful #liberty #necessary #things

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#doubt #leaves #place #superstition #which

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#also #certain #confusion #creative #effective