#doubt

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enlightenment #error #fallibility #humanity #humility

When in doubt wear red. ↗

— Bill Blass

#red #wear #when in doubt

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part. ↗

— Lactantius

#eternal #every #excellence #god #mind

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted. ↗

— Max von Laue

#aware #been #before #difficulties #doubt

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#cruel #degrees #despair #differing #doubt

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#any #doing #fail #find #fooled

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#benefit #criminals #dead #doubt #impartially

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#gratifying #i #i think #kids #look

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#bourgeois #capital #class #domination #grave

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #been #came #cannot #curse