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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Thinking, Insightful

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Moon, Doubt

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Inspirational, Doors, Doubt

  Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (2013). “Essays and Reviews”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Shadow, Half

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• I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Racism, Guy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

  Franz Kafka

  Guiding Principles, Guilt, Principles

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.198, Schocken

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

  Courage, Fall, Sleep

  'Asolando' (1889) 'Epilogue'

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• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Badass, Knowledge, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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• Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Faith, Atheist, People

  "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.

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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

  John Adams

  Strength, Peace, Tyrants

  John Adams (1794). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778”, p.385

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• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, People, Atheism

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Madness, Illness

  Gustave Flaubert (2002). “Memoirs of a Madman”, Hesperus Press

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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  I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Equality, Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

  Colin Powell

  United States, Purpose, Demand

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• Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Moving, Doubt

  Frederick Buechner (2007). “Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC”, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich

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• We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Knowledge, Doubt

  "Sprüche in Prosa". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 419-423, 1922.

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• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Science, Opposites

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, 1928.

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• I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Believe

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• Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Doubt, Term

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

  James Madison

  Order, Mind, Female

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.232

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• Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentines Day

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [115]

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