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“From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted ...”
“The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.”
“Guilt is never to be doubted.”
“Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you canif you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrongto explain it. If you make a t...”
“Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurel...”
“Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber ...”
“You see, doubt is a magnificently difficult pest of which to try and rid oneself and is worse than any other kind of infestation. It can creep in quietly and through the tiniest of cracks and once ...”
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly naked, and more questionable aspect. The contraction of man's horizons a...”
“and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?”
“There is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent about standing in this hurricane of questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust i...”
“And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt Gods goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh h...”
“Today she feels she is the master of her craft. Today she is free of the grinding tyranny of doubt. The voice that mocks her ambition. The voice that bites and slanders and causes her more heartach...”
“You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.”
“Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.”
“Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?”
“Faith and Doubt cannot reside in the same place; as soon as you have a glimmer of doubt, no matter how much you do, feel, vibrate, and affirm, you are showing the Universe that you do not really be...”
“You may doubt others but you can be sure to yourself.”
“Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go o...”
“They say in Zen, waking up to life requires three things: great faith, great doubt, and great effort. Faith isnt a way of going to sleep. Its the work of waking up. And, in order to wake up, youll ...”
“Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.”
