"Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge."

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Source : "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.

Marc Bloch

#Doubt Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Honors to me now are not what they once were.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur's written statement on the death of his wife, Ellen, as quoted in Thomas C. Reeves "Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur" (Chapter 8), 1975.
“The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.”
“I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.”
“We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.”

Source : Pope Paul VI “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”
“If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.”
“To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different political system, and in a totally new culture. What is now governing Indonesia is morally defunct, it is corrupt. What is ruling the country now is not even a culture or a political system: it is a disease.”
“Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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