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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
HENRI POINCARÉ, Of Science and Hypotheses
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
EMILE CIORAN, A Short History of Decay
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
JOSÉ BERGAMÍN, El cohete y la estrella
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
G.C. LICHTENBERG, "Notebook F," Aphorisms
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
THOMAS SZASZ, "Mental Illness," The Second Sin
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
ALEISTER CROWLEY, The Book of Lies
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H.L. MENCKEN, as quoted in James A. Haught's 2000 Years of Disbelief
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
STEPHENIE MEYER, Breaking Dawn
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
SALMAN RUSHDIE, London Observer, Feb. 19, 1989
May there always be a little faith in your doubt.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR, The Song of the Seed
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