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"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."	Aesop
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."	Akhenaton
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."	Alan Alda
"Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."	Paul Anderson
"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'"	Athenæus
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love."	Sri da Avabhas
"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."	Sir Francis Bacon
"If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."	Isaac Bashevis
"Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts."	F. F. Bosworth
"I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream."	(Matthew) Heywood
"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts."	G. B. Burgin
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."	Samuel Butler
"There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."	George Gordon Byron
"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."	John C. Calhoun
"The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented."	John Calvin
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."	Thomas Carlyle
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Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bergen	Charles Caleb Colton
Charles H. Mayo	Cynthia Heimel	Dane Helmers
Edwin Holt Hughes	Erich Fromm	F. F. Bosworth
George Gordon Byron	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	G Gaia
G. B. Burgin	Hazel Henderson	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Hensley Henson	Isaac Bashevis
I Ching	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats
John Calvin	John C. Calhoun	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Julius Henry Marx	Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Max Ehrmann
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Nancy Kerrigan	Napolean Hill
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikos Kazantzakis
Paul Anderson	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Robert Browning
Rollo May	R. I. Fitzhenry	Samuel Butler
Sir Francis Bacon	Sri da Avabhas	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas Carlyle	Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. Le Guin	Václav Havel	William James
Wilson Mizner	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling	(Matthew) Heywood