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Quotations by Subject: Doubt
(Related Subjects: Uncertainty)
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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.
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Albert Guerard
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
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Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Christine Bovee
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
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Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
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Stanislaw Leszczynski (1677 - 1766)
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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