Quotations are the fundamental distillation of a writer’s life and thinking as recorded in words and phrases for posterity. Through them the reader is afforded the unique opportunity to share in the thoughts, the life and the experiences of the writer. In a special way, they offer the reader a window into the mind of the author and hopefully an inducement to read further and learn more about the author and the story he relates.


On a wider scale, they are, as William Feather wrote, “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages preserved into perpetuity“, and as such they are available for the enrichment and enhancement of humanity, regardless of age, sex, race, educational or economic status. They are indeed, as the Talmud states, “food for the famished”.

The collection of quotations presented in this blog, have been chosen by me because of their special impact upon me. They have been published so that you too, may experience the joy I have had over the years reading them and getting to know the authors.


I trust that you will come to know the feeling of deep satisfaction possible from reading them, searching out the author and meditating upon their meaning and their impact on your life.

Monday, February 4, 2008

DOUBT

02/04/08
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ………Voltaire

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. …….James Lane Allen

Doubt grows with knowledge. …….. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ………Abraham Lincoln

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ………. John Henry Newman

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. …… Kahlil Gibran

A mind troubled by Doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. .......Arthur Golden

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. ………James Allen

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. ……… Hosea Ballou

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. ……… Arthur Conan Doyle

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. ………Paul Tillich

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
....Franklin D Roosevelt

Doubt is the father of invention ………Galileo


Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt. ………Will Schmidt

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ……….George Iles

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. …….Francis Bacon

A mind troubled by Doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. .......Arthur Golden

Beliefs are what divide people;
Doubt unites them. ......Peter Ustinov

People may doubt what you say,
but they will believe what you do. …….Author Unknown

To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man
…. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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