Doubt Quotes

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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all side

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

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...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you.

...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary t

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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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organis

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Nathalie Sarraute

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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believe

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

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To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but t

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Philip Massinger

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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In s

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Christopher Hitchens

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We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some

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.

Bertrand Russell

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The torch of doubt and chaos is what the sage steers by.

The torch of doubt and chaos is what the sage steers by.

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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin br

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your do

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Johann von Goethe

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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Henry David Thoreau

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Skeptics are never deceived.

Skeptics are never deceived.

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Great intellects are skeptical.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in dou

When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.

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