Daniel Lubetzky Quotes

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

There's a big difference between saying you are for something and saying how you're going to achieve it.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

The how will show up after the commitment to the what.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.