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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
by Peter Abelard (Philosopher, French , born in 1079) topics: Wisdom , Truth keywords: arrive, constant, doubting, frequent, key, led, question, questioning, truth , wisdom The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
by Clarence Darrow (Lawyer, American , born in 1857) keywords: anything, doubting, made, morons, most, natural, never, opinions, own, part, strong, sure, their, themselves, tyrants, up , world There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
by Adrian Edmondson (Actor, English , born in 1957) keywords: beneath, childish, doubting, effectiveness, gag, good, humour, lot, pretending, really, rubbish, saying, them, toilet , written At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
by Henry Green (Novelist, English , born in 1905) keywords: between, court, doubting, every, face, fear, great, had, hated, incomes, inequalities, lord, other, owner, public, rich, school, should, university, whether , while This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
by Franz Grillparzer (Poet, Austrian , born in 1970) keywords: arrogance, boy, clear, doubting, had, ideas, noble, nothing, quest, searching, still, such, too , where As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
by Adolf Hitler (Criminal , born in 1889) keywords: admitted, cause, doubting, even, glimpse, laid, other, own, propaganda, right, side , soon I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
by Thomas Huxley (Scientist, English , born in 1825) keywords: am, ambitious, content, despise, doubting, exertions, fools, formed, go, half, hand, having, myself, nothing, oh, once, plodding, plough, restless, set, stimulus, their, those, vanity, were, which, wise , would In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
by Paul Elmer More (Critic, American , born in 1864) keywords: befall, defense, doubting, god, good, his, humbly, humility, law, men, never, only, right, state, such, their, virtue, walk, whatever , will Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
by Albert Pike (Lawyer, American , born in 1809) keywords: accompany, comparison, discovery, divine, doubt, doubting, essential, faculty, improvement, itself, judgment, man, must, onward, preliminary, prerogative, progress, questioning, reason, stages, those, useless, which, without , would Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
by Edgar Allan Poe (Poet, American , born in 1809) keywords: before, dared, darkness, deep, doubting, dream, dreaming, dreams, ever, fearing, into, long, mortal, stood , wondering Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
by Ignazio Silone (Author, Italian , born in 1900) keywords: any, artistic, authority, doubting, even, experimenting, liberty, literary, making, mistake, philosophic, political, possibility, religious, saying, searching , social A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
by Alec Waugh (Novelist, English , born in 1898) keywords: applause, confident, desires, doubting, himself, his, indifferent, man, may, praise, quit, reassured , success
