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  • Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

    Heart   Matter   Speak  
  • Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

    Mind   Desert   Might  
  • All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 Mar. 1778)
  • That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

    Trying   Voters   Firsts  
  • Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

    E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press
  • In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.

  • Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

    Lewis Carroll (1979). “The Letters of Lewis Carroll: ca. 1837-1885”
  • Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

    Speech in House of Commons, 12 Nov. 1936
  • Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.

    Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.36, Penguin
  • I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.

  • I’ve been all three. And now I’m undecided.

  • The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

  • Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

    Song: Young Turks
  • The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.

    Growing Up   Men   Mars  
  • When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

    Change   Yoga   Thinking  
  • "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"

    Running   Sex   Gay  
  • Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

  • It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

    Clouds   Sea   Land  
  • It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

    Mean   Men   Clouds  
  • Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

    Numbers   Tasks   Needs  
    "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.
  • Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

    Struggle   Class   Enemy  
    Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.8, NYU Press
  • It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

    Years   World   Spirit  
    James Boswell, John Wilson Croker, John Wright (1839). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides”, p.59
  • When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

    Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

    "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.
  • The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

    'Endymion' (1818) preface
  • Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.

    Men   Undecided  
  • A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

    Book   Library   May  
  • Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

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