Favorite Quotations
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Doubt
Masters of the 20th Century
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 I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise. ~ Tony Shalhoub When we are not sure, we are alive. ~ Graham Greene I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. ~ Alberto Salazar Where there is doubt, there is freedom. ~ Latin Proverb Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare, Measure For Measure It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~ René Descartes If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. ~ Johann von Goethe Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous. ~ Voltaire Nothing will ever be attempted is all possible objections must be first overcome. ~ Samuel Johnson Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. ~ Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
"Who knows most, doubts most." ~ Robert Browning