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“Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded were its eyes - Mr. Thornton, instead of being shocked, seemed to have through that very stage of ...”
“She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised, precise sentences so that she is not misunderstood. She ...”
“There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why its so important. Ive wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.”
“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”
“Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.”
“Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from ...”
“In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to doubt a little more, to dou...”
“Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because Im afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?”
“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.”
“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; ...”
“Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded w...”
“I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.”
“He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it wa...”
“Dont you ever get scared? I ask.Of what? She says.Of not being good enough.You mean at writing? Lil asks.I nod. What if Im the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if Im fooli...”
“I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.”
“He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.”
“If you fill your mind with wonderful thoughts, there can be no room left for doubt.”
“Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.”
“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”
“I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.”
