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• Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Information, Temples, Trouble

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

  James Allen

  Winning, Literature, Doubt And Fear

  James Allen (2016). “As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspiring, Success, Failure

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• Despair is the conclusion of fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Despair, Fool, Conclusion

  Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Of Beacon The Earl of Beaconsfield (2010). “Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield”, p.226, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Sadness, Learning

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Golf, Simple

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• Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

  Salman Rushdie

  Century, Humans, Seems

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• 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

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Believe

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

  Atheism, Would Be, Kind

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• We learn from failure, not from success!

  Bram Stoker

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Learning

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.104, Zillmann Publishing

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• The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.

  Saul Alinsky

  Pain, Believe, Dark

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.4, Vintage

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• Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Should

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• I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.

  Nick Hornby

  Cat, Doors, Healthy

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

  William Blake

  Light

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

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• I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

  David James Duncan

  Certainty

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.40, Dial Press

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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

  Wall, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• What are men? Children who doubt.

  Derek Walcott

  Children, Men

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• If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Confidence, Chakra, Ifs

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• When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Maturity, Our World

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4096, Delphi Classics

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Friendship, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Attitude, Believe, Belief

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  John Donne

  Joy, Serenity, Heaven

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Faith, Jesus, Children

  "Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane". Book by Harold Victor Martin, 1950.

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• Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Truth, Believe, Profound

  "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

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