doubt Quotes

“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

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“if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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“But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

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“You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self-doubt.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat;”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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“The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

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“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“The best lack all conviction, . . . while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

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“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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