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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
Norman Douglas
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.
Stephen Richards
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
Thomas Jefferson
Doubt is the father of invention.
Galileo Galilei
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel Johnson
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
E. M. Forster
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Miguel de Unamuno
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Ambrose Bierce