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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
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
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
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
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
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
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
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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