Erich von Däniken Quotes

If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

Erich von Däniken

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Game
  • Giving
  • Best

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • God
  • America
  • Doubt

• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Law
  • Doubt
  • Yourself

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Trying
  • School
  • High

• There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Important
  • Science
  • Doubt

• They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Doubt
  • Fly

• If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Doubt
  • September

• Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It’s not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it’s something in his spirit. It’s almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it’s really simple. It was so easy to work with him.'

  

  Alison Lohman
  • Work
  • Power
  • Energy

• For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.

  

  Andrea Anders
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Doubt

• I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

  

  Billy Evans
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Decision

• There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Doubt

• I'm still the best bantamweight in the world in my mind, yes. If I had any doubt that I was the best in the world then I shouldn't be competing. If you don't think you're going to be the best, what's the point?

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • World
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

  

  Max Hastings
  • Family
  • Responsibility
  • Doubt

• Being the DA was, without a doubt, the best job in the world. I loved knowing that people would get their justice.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

  

  Jim Hunt
  • Doubt
  • Explore

• Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the 'Obamaphone' program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Abuse

• I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Study

• The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Passion

• Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

  

  David McCallum

• If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

  

  Erich von Däniken
  • Doubt
  • Supposed
  • Accepted