“ There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ”
- Alfred Korzybski- Copy
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“ I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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“ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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“ The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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“ Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human.". ”
- Suzanne La Follette- Copy
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