Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."
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Doubters
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Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness."
Vince Young
Football Player
"I have a lot of doubters. I use that as motivation."
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"The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious."
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"Doubters will doubt to the end."
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"Fire the doubters out of your life."
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"The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps."
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