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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
When prayer removes distrust and doubt
and enters the field of mental certainty,
it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
- Ernest Holmes
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride.
But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid.
Savor the adventure.
Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.
Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life -
as you did on that roller coaster.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid,
and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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