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• The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

  W. H. Auden

  Self, Feelings, Stimulus

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Protestant Mystics"), (p. 51), 1973.

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• Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

  F. F. Bosworth

  Faith, Believe, Belief

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• Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Inspirational, Faith, Doe

  "The Agony of Christianity". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1931.

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• Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

  Rick Pitino

  Path, Highways

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

  Ivan Panin

  Men, Luxury, Useless

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• Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Different, Belief, Ancient

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, God, Religion

  "Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 285, 1959.

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• Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

  Neil Welliver

  Woods, Painting, Hell

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Denial, May, Becoming

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Moon, Sun

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

  John Bunyan

  Despair, Castles, Giants

  John Bunyan, William Mason (of Rotherithe.) (1814). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts”, p.127

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• We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Knowledge, Littles

  "Sprüche in Prosa". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 419-423, 1922.

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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

  Psychosis, Neurosis, Problem

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Life, Faith, Life Is

  "Salmo II" (1907)

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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Faith, Believe, Absolute Certainty

  "Maxims and Moral Sentences". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, pp. 153-186, No. 61, 1851.

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

  Philip Massinger

  Fall, Despair, Misery

  Philip Massinger (1816). “The Duke of Milan: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.10

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• Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, People, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Tents, Beacons

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Othello”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Knowing, Criticism, Quality

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Charm, Doubted

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI. 93, 1321.

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• He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.

  Edmond Hoyle

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• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Progress

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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• A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

  Karl Kraus

  Motivational, Success, Strong

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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