“ Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- 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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“ 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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“ Suspiciousness is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. ”
- Ernest Holmes- Copy
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“ There's a lot of uncertainty, to be honest with you, about how to proceed. ”
- Jeb Bush- Copy
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“ There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual? ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it. ”
- Mark W. Clark- Copy
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“ Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. ”
- Lillian Carter- Copy
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“ Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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