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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.]

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the
treasure chest until I finally lifted my read more

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.

by Sir John Denham Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

by Kahlil Gibran Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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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.

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Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

by Douglas Adams Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people read more

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.

by Bertrand Russell Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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

by H. L. Mencken Found in: Doubt Quotes,
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