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Who never doubted, never half believed.
Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not
of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XIV, v. 23)
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He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Conversation (l. 121)
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Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
[It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (XI, 93)
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Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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You prove but too clearly that seeking to know
Is too frequently learning to doubt.
[Fr., Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher a connaitre
N'est souvent qu' apprendre a douter.]
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the
treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and
realized that I had dug my own grave.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
- Frances R. Havergal,
Author: Frances R. Havergal
Source: Royal Bounty--The Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart
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When in doubt, win the trick.
Author: Edmund Hoyle
Source: Twenty-four Rules for Learners (rule 12)
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself
and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of
your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you
can see forever.
Author: Edmund Hoyle
Source: Twenty-four Rules for Learners (rule 12)
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He who dallies is a dastard,
He who doubts is damned.
Author: Edmund Hoyle
Source: Twenty-four Rules for Learners (rule 12)
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But the gods are dead--
Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,
And doubt is brother devil to Despair!
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D.
Source: Prometheus--Christ
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto V, l. 73)
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Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Source: A Lover's Verses
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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts
nothing.
Author: Joseph Roux
Source: Meditations of a Parish Priest
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I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Author: Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I")
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.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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!
Author: Edith Matilda Thomas
Source: The Compass
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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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.
Author: Cynthia Heimel
Source: None
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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.
Author: Buddha
Source: None
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The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
Author: Hungarian Proverb
Source: None
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Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
Author: Robertson Davies
Source: None
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A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Author: Karl Kraus
Source: None
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
Source: None
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Doubt is the father of invention.
Author: Galileo Galilei
Source: None
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I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
Author: Frank A. Clark
Source: None
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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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.
Author: George Gordon Byron
Source: None
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Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Author: George Iles
Source: None
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He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
Author: Brazilian Proverb
Source: None
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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Author: Francis Quarles
Source: None
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: None
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Author: Alan Alda
Source: None
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When you doubt, abstain.
Author: Zoroaster
Source: None
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: None
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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