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Thu 14 Sep 2023

Doubt

Posted by PJ under doubt, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”

—Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, August 8-9, 1846

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Thu 31 Aug 2023

Doubt

Posted by PJ under certainty, doubt, ignorance, questions and answers, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty—some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

—Richard P. Feynman, The Value of Science

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Thu 23 Jun 2022

Truth

Posted by PJ under doubt, opinion, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Tue 18 May 2021

Demon

Posted by PJ under doubt, inner demons, procrastination, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Secretly writers do love the censor within. We say we hate that sanctimonious inner voice, but there is no better excuse for procrastination, lethargy and despair. There is no better excuse for getting nothing done than to lock yourself in battle with the famous inner demons of self-criticism and doubt.”

—Allegra Goodman, “O.K., You’re Not Shakespeare. Not Get Back to Work,” The New York Times, March 12, 2001

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Mon 24 Jun 2019

Questions

Posted by PJ under belief, doubt, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Believe, and you shall be right, for you shall save yourself. Doubt, and you shall be right, for you will perish. The only difference is that to believe is greatly to your advantage.”

—William James, “Rationality, Activity and Faith”

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Wed 20 Feb 2019

Consolation prize

Posted by PJ under art, doubt, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

—Robert Hughes, “Modernism’s Patriarch (Cezanne),” Time, June 10, 1996

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Thu 15 Nov 2018

Doubts

Posted by PJ under doubt, faith, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If you don’t have doubts, you’re kidding yourself, or asleep. Doubts are ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

—Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

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Tue 2 Oct 2018

Our finest

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, doubt, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.”

—Henry Miller, Sexus: the Rosy Crucifixion, Book I

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Tue 19 Jun 2018

Doubt and certainty

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Random quote of the day:

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”

—Voltaire, letter to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767

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Fri 21 Jul 2017

Doubts

Posted by PJ under doubt, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“A writer must never speak of his doubts regarding his creation. It would be too easy to answer him: “Who is forcing you to create? If it is such constant anguish, why do you endure it?” Doubts are the most intimate thing about us. Never speak of one’s doubts, whatever they may be.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951, tr. Justin O’Brien

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