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“To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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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 Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at II, ii)
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“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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“Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Lucio at I, iv)
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“Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
To hang a doubt on--or woe upon thy life!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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“To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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“To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.”
Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I") Quotes Source: Maxims and Moral Sentences (no. 61)
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“There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. XCV, st. 3)
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“I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your
doubt runneth high--
North points to the needle!”
Edith Matilda Thomas Quotes Source: The Compass
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“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”
Francis Bacon Quotes |
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“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”
Cynthia Heimel Quotes |
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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
Buddha Quotes |
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“The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.”
Hungarian Proverb Quotes |
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“Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.”
Robertson Davies Quotes |
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“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”
Karl Kraus Quotes |
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“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
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“The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.”
Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes |
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“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Doubt is the father of invention.”
Galileo Galilei Quotes |
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“I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.”
Frank A. Clark Quotes |
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“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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“Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.”
Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
George Gordon Byron Quotes |
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“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”
George Iles Quotes |
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