#doubt

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciously #doubt #fanatic #man #over

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

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#creativity #enemy #everything #guts #imagination

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

— Albert Speer

#concentration #doubt #keep #means #menace

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

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

— Jose Bergamin

#doubt #leaves #place #superstition #which

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#complicated #course #doubts #feel #getting

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#apollo #big #contributor #doubt #engineering

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. ↗

— Hal Boyle

#any #anywhere #doubt #else #get

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#american #defeat #different #doubt #failed