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by means of the inquiry already made, or else it proves that the inquiry was not complete. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg/220px-Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg/330px-Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg/440px-Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Roubiliac-William_Shakespeare-British_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubt" class="extiw" title="w:Doubt">Doubt</a></b> is uncertainty in the context of <a href="/wiki/Trust" title="Trust">trust</a>, action, decision or belief. It implies challenging some notion of reality in effect. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <i><a href="#Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> · <i><a href="#Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)">Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</a></i> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, <i>The Advancement of Learning</i> (1605), Book I, v, 8.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who never doubted, never half believed.<br />Where doubt there truth is—'tis her shadow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a>, <i>Festus</i> (1813), scene A Country Town.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton" title="Edward Bulwer-Lytton">Edward Bulwer-Lytton</a>, <i>King Arthur</i> (1848-9), Book XII, Chapter XXVIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Doubt is natural to a human being, for his conceptions are infinite, his powers are only finite. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Wotton Reinfred</i> (1827), Ch. I, in <i>The Last Words of Thomas Carlyle</i> (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892), p. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Past and Present</i> (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843), Book III, Ch. XI, p. 170.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We should never believe anything we have not dared to doubt. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden" class="extiw" title="w:Christina, Queen of Sweden">Christina, Queen of Sweden</a>, <i>Maxims of a Queen</i>, selected and translated by Una Birch (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907), p. 27.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief" class="extiw" title="s:The Ethics of Belief">The Ethics of Belief</a>" (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Inquiry into the evidence of a doctrine is not to be made once for all, and then taken as finally settled. It is never lawful to stifle a doubt; for either it can be honestly answered by means of the inquiry already made, or else it proves that the inquiry was not complete. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford" title="William Kingdon Clifford">William Kingdon Clifford</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief" class="extiw" title="s:The Ethics of Belief">The Ethics of Belief</a>" (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He would not, with a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peremptory#Adjective" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:peremptory">peremptory</a> tone,<br />Assert the nose upon his face his own. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, <i>Conversation</i> (1782), line 121.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, <i>The Book of Lies</i> (1912).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Fear_of_God" title="Fear of God">fear of God</a> is not the beginning of <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. <a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">Skepticism</a> and doubt lead to <a href="/wiki/Study" class="mw-redirect" title="Study">study</a> and <a href="/wiki/Investigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigation">investigation</a>, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Darrow" title="Clarence Darrow">Clarence Darrow</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/darrow2.htm">"Why I Am An Agnostic"</a> (1929)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Another meme of the religious meme complex is called faith. It means blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence. The story of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubting_Thomas" class="extiw" title="w:Doubting Thomas">Doubting Thomas</a> is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence. Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence. The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held up to us as worthy of imitation. The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a>, <i>The Selfish Gene</i> (1976).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful; and from that time <b>I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions</b> I had adopted, <b>and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation</b>... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a>, Meditation I, (1641)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. <ul><li>Casaubon, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binah" class="extiw" title="w:Binah">Binah</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum" title="Foucault's Pendulum">Foucault's Pendulum</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a>, Chapter 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Incredulity doesn't kill curiosity; it encourages it. <ul><li>Casaubon, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binah" class="extiw" title="w:Binah">Binah</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum" title="Foucault's Pendulum">Foucault's Pendulum</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a>, Chapter 7</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. ... it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. ... I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here ... I might think about it a little bit ... but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened about not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Richard Feynman</a>, "Doubt and Uncertainty," <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out" class="extiw" title="w:The Pleasure of Finding Things Out">The Pleasure of Finding Things Out</a></i> (1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Doubt grows with knowledge. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <i>Sprüche in Prosa</i> (<i>Proverbs in Prose</i>, 1819).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Is God fair? The Christians say that God damns forever anyone who is skeptical about truth of bunkistic religion as revealed unto the holy haranguers. What this means is that a God, if any, punishes a man for using his reason. If there is a God in existence, reasons should be available for his existence. Assuming that such a precious thing as a man's eternal future depends on his belief in a God, then the materials for that belief should be overwhelming and not at all doubtful. Yet here is a man whose reason makes it impossible for him to believe in a God. He sees no evidence of such an entity. He finds all the arguments weak and worthless. He doubts and he denies. Then <b>is a God fair in visiting upon such a skeptic the penalty for his inevitable intellectual attitude?</b> The intelligent man refuses to believe fairy tales. Can a God blame him? If so, then a God is not as fair as an ordinarily decent man. And <b>fairness</b>, we think, <b>is more important than piety</b>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Haldeman-Julius" class="extiw" title="w:E. Haldeman-Julius">E. Haldeman-Julius</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Atheism" class="extiw" title="w:The Meaning of Atheism">The Meaning of Atheism</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a>, "Ideals and Doubts", 10 <i>Illinois Law Rev</i> 3 (1915).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a>, "Ideals and Doubts", 10 <i>Illinois Law Rev</i> 3 (1915).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Fear believes — courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays — courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism — courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion — courage is science. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll" title="Robert G. Ingersoll">Robert G. Ingersoll</a>, "The Ghosts", compiled in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30208/30208-h/30208-h.htm">The Ghosts and Other Lectures</a></i> (1892).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous — if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll" title="Robert G. Ingersoll">Robert G. Ingersoll</a>, "The Ghosts", compiled in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30208/30208-h/30208-h.htm">The Ghosts and Other Lectures</a></i> (1892).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I may be wrong, and often am, but I never doubt. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Jessel_(jurist)" title="George Jessel (jurist)">George Jessel</a>, said to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coleridge,_1st_Baron_Coleridge" class="extiw" title="w:John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge">Lord Coleridge</a>, in response to the question, "Have you no doubts about it, Jessel?", asked with regard to Jessel's judgment as to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Claims" class="extiw" title="w:Alabama Claims"><i>Alabama</i> claims</a>. When later asked about the truth of the story, Jessel replied, "very likely, but Coleridge with his Constitutional inaccuracy has told it wrong. I can never have said 'often wrong'". Reported in Robert Q. Kelly and Frederic D. Donnelly, <i>The Law Library: Proceedings, Sixth Biennial A.A.L.L. Institute for Law Librarians</i> (1964) p. 51.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Put your finger <a href="/wiki/Wounds" title="Wounds">here</a>; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">John</a> 20:27</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suzy_Kassem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suzy Kassem (page does not exist)">Suzy Kassem</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_Up_And_Salute_The_Sun" class="extiw" title="w:Rise Up And Salute The Sun">Rise Up And Salute The Sun</a></i> (2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I do think it strange that people have doubted everything and have again reached certainty, without as much as dropping a word concerning the difficulties which have held my thought captive—so much so that I have, now and then, longed to be freed of them—freed by the aid of one, note well, who was aware of these difficulties, and not of one who in his sleep had a notion to doubt, and to have doubted, everything, and again in his sleep had the notion that he is explaining, and has explained, all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soren_Kierkegaard" class="mw-redirect" title="Soren Kierkegaard">Soren Kierkegaard</a> In Vino Veritas, From Stages on Life's Way 1845 Lee M Hollanderr translation 1923</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Kenyon,_1st_Baron_Kenyon" title="Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon">Lord Kenyon</a>, <i>Godfrey v. Hudson</i> (1788), 2 Esp. 500; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 172.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski" title="Alfred Korzybski">Alfred Korzybski</a>, <i>Manhood of Humanity</i> (1921), p. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Doubt is useful, it keeps <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been <a href="/wiki/Tests" title="Tests">tested</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Magee" class="extiw" title="w:David Magee">David Magee</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)" title="Life of Pi (film)"><i>Life of Pi</i> (2012)</a>, based on <a href="/wiki/Yann_Martel" title="Yann Martel">Yann Martel</a>'s 2001 novel.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>She had learned to doubt, rather than simply to question. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre" title="Vonda N. McIntyre">Vonda N. McIntyre</a>, <i>The Genius Freaks,</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Knight" class="extiw" title="w:Damon Knight">Damon Knight</a> (ed.) <i>Orbit 12</i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. <b>Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly</b>; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Moby-Dick" title="Moby-Dick">Moby-Dick</a></i> (1851), Ch. 85.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To know much is often the cause of doubting more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne)" class="extiw" title="w:Essays (Montaigne)">Essais</a></i> (1588).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>The Rape of the Lock</i> (1712), Canto V, line 73.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley%27s_Believe_It_or_Not!" class="extiw" title="w:Ripley's Believe It or Not!">Believe it or not</a> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ripley" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Ripley">Robert Ripley</a>'s debuted this phrase as the new name of his 1919 comic strip.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell-Einstein_Manifesto" class="extiw" title="w:Russell-Einstein Manifesto">Russell-Einstein Manifesto</a> (1955)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, "The Triumph of Stupidity" (1933-05-10) in <i>Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935</i> (Routledge, 1998, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-17866-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-17866-5">ISBN 0-415-17866-5</a>, p. 28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a> used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda", <i>Sceptical Essays</i> (1928).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Vammika Sutta likens skeptical doubt to a fork in the road. Say a traveler who is carrying many valuables arrives at a fork in the road; if he lingers there unable to decide which way to take, robbers may catch and possibly kill him. In the same way, a doubtful meditator who falls prey to wavering and procrastination cannot continue on with practice. He or she will then become a victim of mental defilements and be unable to escape the cycle of suffering. Only when he or she abandons doubt by noting it and uninterruptedly continues the practice can he or she be liberated from the cycle of suffering. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahasi_Sayadaw" title="Mahasi Sayadaw">Mahasi Sayadaw</a>, <i>Manual of Insight</i> (1945), p. 64</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But yet, madam—<br />I do not like, "but yet," it does allay<br />The good precedence; fie upon "but yet!"<br />"But yet" is a gaoler to bring forth<br />Some monstrous malefactor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i> (1600s), Act II, scene 5, line 49.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To be, or not to be, that is the question:<br />Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer<br />The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;<br />Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,<br />And by opposing end them? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> (1600-02), Act III, scene 1, line 56.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in<br />To saucy doubts and fears. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 24.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our doubts are traitors<br />And make us lose the good we oft might win<br />By fearing to attempt. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i> (1603), Act I, scene 4, line 77.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To be once in doubt<br />Is once to be resolv'd. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i> (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 179.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No hinge nor loop,<br />To hang a doubt on. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i> (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 366.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Modest doubt is call'd<br />The beacon of the wise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida" title="Troilus and Cressida">Troilus and Cressida</a></i> (c. 1602), Act II, scene 2, line 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Out of doubt comes faith. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Penrhyn_Stanley" title="Arthur Penrhyn Stanley">Arthur Penrhyn Stanley</a>, <i>Thoughts That Breathe: From the Writings of Dean Stanley</i>, selected by E. E. Brown (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1879), p. 77.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There lives more faith in honest doubt,<br />Believe me, than in half the creeds. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a></i> (1849), Part XCV, Stanza 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Doubt, indeed, is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization. It is the dim night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith which springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Turnbull" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Turnbull">Robert Turnbull</a>, <i>Life Pictures from a Pastor's Notebook</i> (1857).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Only those who doubt really believe, and those who do not doubt are neither tempted against their faith nor do they truly believe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno" title="Miguel de Unamuno">Miguel de Unamuno</a>, <i>The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho</i> (1914), Part 2, Ch. 10, in <i>Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno</i>, Volume 3, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (Bollingen Series LXXXV.3/Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 174.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Those who do not doubt do not believe. Faith is maintained by resolving doubts, and again resolving those further doubts which are suggested by the resolution of previous doubts. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno" title="Miguel de Unamuno">Miguel de Unamuno</a>, <i>The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho</i> (1914), Part 2, Ch. 10, in <i>Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno</i>, Volume 3, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (Bollingen Series LXXXV.3/Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 175.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>La doute n'est pas un état bien agréable, mais l'assurance est un état ridicule.</i> <ul><li>Translation: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>, letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia (28 November 1770), in S. G. Tallentyre (ed.), <i>Voltaire in His Letters</i>. New York: G. P. Putman's Sons, 1919, p. 232.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Doubt is for the dying. <ul><li>Imperial Guard, <a href="/wiki/Warhammer_40,000:_Dawn_of_War" title="Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War">Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The best lack all conviction, while the worst <br />Are full of passionate intensity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats" title="William Butler Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a>, <i>The Second Coming</i> (1921).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 200-01.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.</i> <ul><li>Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a>, <i>Inferno</i>, XI. 93.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Uncertain ways unsafest are,<br />And doubt a greater mischief than despair. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Denham" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Denham">Sir John Denham</a>, <i>Cooper's Hill</i>, line 399.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher à connaître<br />N'est souvent qu' apprendre à douter.</i> <ul><li>You prove but too clearly that seeking to know<br /> Is too frequently learning to doubt.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoinette_du_Ligier_de_la_Garde_Deshouli%C3%A8res" title="Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières">Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Ridley_Havergal" title="Frances Ridley Havergal">Frances Ridley Havergal</a>, <i>Royal Bounty</i>, <i>The Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When in doubt, win the trick. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Hoyle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edmund Hoyle (page does not exist)">Edmund Hoyle</a>, <i>Twenty-four rules for Learners</i>, Rule 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He who dallies is a dastard,<br />He who doubts is damned. <ul><li>Attributed to George McDuffle, of South Carolina, during the "Nullification" period. Used by James Hamilton, when Governor of South Carolina. Also quoted by J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, in Congress, Feb. 1877, during the Hayes-Tilden dispute. Appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal (Col. Watterson, editor), during same dispute. (See also Romans, XIV. 23).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But the gods are dead—<br />Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,<br />And doubt is brother devil to Despair! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Boyle_O%27Reilly" title="John Boyle O'Reilly">John Boyle O'Reilly</a>, <i>Prometheus</i>, <i>Christ</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;<br />I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Walter_Raleigh" title="Walter Raleigh">Walter Raleigh</a>, <i>A Lover's Verses</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And he that doubteth is damned if he eat. <ul><li>Romans, XIV. 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Leszczy%C5%84ski" title="Stanisław Leszczyński">Stanisław Leszczyński</a> (King of Poland), <i>Maxims and Moral Sentences</i>, No. 61.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I follow my law and fulfil it all duly—and look! when your doubt runneth high—<br />North points to the needle! <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edith_M._Thomas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edith M. Thomas (page does not exist)">Edith M. Thomas</a>, <i>The Compass</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><span id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_.281895.29"></span><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doubt&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><small>Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</small> </p> <ul><li>Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Jowett" title="Benjamin Jowett">Benjamin Jowett</a>, p. 195.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You ask bitterly, like Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?" In such an hour what remains? I reply, "Obedience." Leave those thoughts for the present. Act — be merciful and gentle — honest; force yourself to abound in little services; try to do good to others; be true in the duty that you know. <i>That</i> must be right, whatever else is uncertain. And by all the laws of the human heart, by the word of God, you shall not be left to doubt. Do that much of the will of God which is plain to you, and "You shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson" title="Frederick William Robertson">Frederick William Robertson</a>, p. 195.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To get rid of your doubts, part with your sin. Put away your intemperance, your dishonesty, your unlawful ways of making money, your sensuality, your falsehood, acted or spoken, and see if a holy life be not the best disperser of unwelcome doubts, and new obedience the most certain guide to fresh assurance. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_(1814-1871)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Hamilton (1814-1871)">James Hamilton</a>, p. 195.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fear not to confront realities. The Saviour lives; and the first joy that you will give to Him is when, leaving off your false excuses, you throw yourself with a full heart and empty hands into His arms of mercy. The Saviour lives; and were you now to die looking for salvation only from that Friend of Sinners, verily this day should you be with Him in a better than Adam's paradise. The Saviour lives; and in full sympathy with that wondrous lover of men's souls, the Holy Spirit is even now ready if besought to begin His sanctifying process in your mind. The Saviour lives; and even now He stretches out toward you an arm which, if you only grasp in thankful love, your faith shall strengthen while you cling, and it will be from no weakness in that arm, if you are not erelong exalted to a point of holy attainment which at this moment you view with despair, and by and by to that region of unveiled realities where you will ask in wonder at yourself, "Wherefore did I doubt?" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_(1814-1871)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Hamilton (1814-1871)">James Hamilton</a>, p. 196.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say, "I must and will know the truth." That did not John the Baptist. Brethren, John appealed to Christ. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson" title="Frederick William Robertson">Frederick William Robertson</a>, p. 196.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well — well — well, I, — I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I — well, I — I hope I am?" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_L._Moody" title="Dwight L. Moody">Dwight L. 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