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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
-John Bunyan
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
-Edmund Burke
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
-Robert Burns
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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.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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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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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
-Thomas Carlyle
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
-Clarence Darrow
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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.
-Rene Descartes
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
-John Dewey
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
-John Donne
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
-Norman Douglas
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A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.
-Emile Durkheim
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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.
-Tryon Edwards
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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
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
-Bergen Evans
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Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
-R. I. Fitzhenry
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
-B. C. Forbes
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Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
-E. M. Forster
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Books about Doubt
