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• Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Fear, Work

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Duty, Purpose

• If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Confusion, Leadership

  Tags in Awareness, Doubt/Uncertainty, Learning, Attention

• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Arrogance

• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

  James Baldwin

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Heart, Evil

• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Facts, Learning

• We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Limitations, Learning

• If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Opinion

• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Stupidity

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Manipulate, Warfare, Division, Psychological

• I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

  James Joyce

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

  Rollo May

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.

  Carl Sagan

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely — this is for man what running is for a horse.

  Blaise Pascal

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

  Havelock Ellis

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Topics in Confusion, Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

   

  Jane Addams

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty