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Theodore Rubin: “The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: “Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.
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Rene Descartes: “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.
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Buddha: “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees wth your own reason and your own common sense.
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Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey: “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.”  more
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Richard Feynman: “I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Sam Nunn: “We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
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Linus Pauling: “When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect -- but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate -- may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical -- always think for yourself.
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Martha Nussbaum: “To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
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Bertrand Russell: “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: “To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Thomas Jefferson: “The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
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Anatole France: “It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
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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; and where there is sadness, joy
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Peter Ustinov: “Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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Richard Bach: “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
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Frank Herbert: “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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Mark Twain: “Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
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John Naisbitt: “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
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Havelock Ellis: “A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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Henri Bergson: “An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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David Hume: “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.
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Umberto Eco: “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Vince Lombardi: “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Donald Rumsfeld: “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.
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Jane Addams: “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
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Princess Diana: “Only do what your heart tells you.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg: “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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G. K. Chesterton: “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.
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