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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
Jodi Picoult
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
Sir Philip Sidney
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask.
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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Morris Bender
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
Albert Einstein
Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.
Orson Scott Card
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
Ben Jonson
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Simone Weil
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
Chinese Proverb
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
Robert Frost
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.
Bertrand Russell
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
