"Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence."
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"The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him."
"In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months."
"Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity."
"I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath."
"No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools."
"Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self."
"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."
"We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance."
"Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt."
"Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven."
"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."
"When in doubt, choose to live."
"I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt."
"Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding."
"Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge."
"Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse."
"How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?"
"Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear."
"This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart."