doubt Quotes

“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

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“Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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“That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“He who has a conception of what it means to live upon spirit knows also what the hunger of doubt is, and that the doubter hungers just as much for the daily bread of life as for the nutriment of the spirit.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“And this same knowledge extends likewise to all other things which I recollect having formerly demonstrated, such as the truths of geometry and the like; for what can be alleged against them to cause me to place them in doubt?”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

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“Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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