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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Topics in Inspirational, Success

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• Only do what your heart tells you.

  Princess Diana

  Topics in Commitment, Ideals

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Heart, Duty
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  Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in People, Doubt/Uncertainty
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  If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

  René Descartes

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Possible

• Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Optimism, Pessimism
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  The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Understanding, Mystery

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Philosophy

• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Inspirational, Trust

  Tags in Change/Growth, Doubt/Uncertainty

• We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

  Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr.

  Topics in Challenge, Politics

  Tags in Effectiveness, Chaos, Doubt/Uncertainty, Difficulties

• That “change makes us uncomfortable” is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and underconsidered half-truths around…. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we “know” to be present that causes us anxiety.

  Robert Kegan

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Change/Growth, Doubt/Uncertainty, Difficulties

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Change/Growth, Doubt/Uncertainty, Persistence, Character, Purpose, Meaning

• It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

  Virginia Woolf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Writers And Writing, Creativity

• It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findinCreativity
  gs of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, School, Creativity

• Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Courage, Creativity

• Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

  John A. Hutchinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Faith, Thinking, Mind

• Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Logic

• There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Thinking

• One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Advice, Wisdom

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Truth

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• It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

  Anatole France

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Understanding