It is only doubt that creates.
Interpretation
Doubt can lead to creativity and innovation.
This quote by H. L. Mencken suggests that it is the uncertainty and questioning inherent in doubt that often spark new ideas and creations. Instead of being a negative force, doubt can be a catalyst for imagination and progress, prompting individuals to explore and challenge existing norms.
In practice
Using this quote during a creative workshop can inspire participants to embrace their doubts as a source of inspiration.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."
Time is generally the best doctor.
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