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Quotes about Doubt

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
- Clarence Darrow, US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938)

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
- Peter Ustinov, English actor & author (1921 - 2004)

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US jurist (1841 - 1935)

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
- Robert Browning, English poet (1812 - 1889)

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, French mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650)

CP Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
- Albert Guerard

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski, US (Polish-born) author, logician, & scientist (1879 - 1950)

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
- Stanislaw Leszczynski, elected Polish king 1704-1709, 1733-1734 (1677 - 1766)

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christine Bovee