"He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out."
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"I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly."
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"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance."
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"The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst."
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"To saucy doubts and fears."
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"To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved."
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"But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears."
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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?"
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"I'm not going to doubt my life."
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"I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties."
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"Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism."
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"The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting."
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". . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you"
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"When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side."
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"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards."
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"At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty."
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"There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice."
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"The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone."
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"Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence."
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"Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."
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