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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
Probabilities - the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.
Surely some revelation is at hand.
Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.
Confidence is providence
When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second
Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.
All thinking begins with wondering
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom
Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.
I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
Patience is decisive indecision.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers
and dreams and gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.
predictably unpredictable
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
Wisdom begins in wonder.
waiting for the little moments of realization to fall about the room like feathers.
I've got my doubts, there's no doubt about it
On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.
On the verge of a decision we all tremble: hope pauses with fluttering wings.
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
Certainty ... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
vociferating optimism.
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
I and this mystery here we stand.
With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray
absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence
is harder to accept than death.
The time for thinkers has come.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.
Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing
Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes
One wandering thought pollutes the day;
I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.
You've been thinking and I've been drinking.
The unknown is my compass
Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.
A great leap in the dark
Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Mad with common sense
When others in doubt, your strong belief steers.
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...
When thoughts aren't sticking, are thicker than stew What is true? What to do? When strife is looming, naught brewing for you Ask anew, what to do? Peder
He will have guessed, surely?' said Merry. 'Were they likely to end any other way?' 'Not likely,' answered Gandalf, 'though they came to the balance of a hair. But
Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.
The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;
Towards which, advance the war.
They exit marching.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
In the gap between thoughts
nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
Think and let think.-- John Wesley
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
Doubts are necessary; they keep us on the right path
Time is thought.
Misgive that you may not mistake.
Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences [ ... ] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.
Arithmetic has began to totter.
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.
Thinking about - thinking about it - then think again!
- Denis J
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
Certainty becomes you.
How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.
I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.
Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
An endless defeat
I heard something up ahead.
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.