A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

—Arthur Golden

About Arthur Golden

Arthur Sulzberger Golden (born December 6, 1956) is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).

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Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that, isn't it?

—Arthur Golden in Memoirs of a Geisha

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Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more… doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

—Albert Guerard

Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

—James Thurber

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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

—Cynthia Heimel

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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

—Carlos Castaneda

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