Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.

To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships read more

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.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

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 so full of doubts.

Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
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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!

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.

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.