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"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof."
"Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful."
"Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."
"And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere."
""We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.""
"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt."
"Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt."
"A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!"
"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
"There is no doubt that the actions of ISIS are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose. That helps them recruit. That adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to have carry out an action that somehow they're part of a larger movement."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"I think, therefore I doubt."
"One percent doubt is zero percent faith."
"My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear."
"I am plagued by doubts."
"For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can."
"Even the genius ask questions."
"To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it."
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt."
