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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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• 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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• 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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• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Optimism, Doubt, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Hands, Smell

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• Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

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• Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.

  Sarah

  Love You, Needs, Tested

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

  Khalil Gibran

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Doubt, Shows

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

  Brent Weeks

  Reality, Wish, Complaining

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

  Shania Twain

  Lying, Past, Years

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

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• From the hindsight of history George Washington seems larger than life, more statuesque than man. Too bad! Washington's greatness as a leader was courage under fire and persistence in the face of obstacles. Yet even he at times doubted himself. But he put those doubts aside and forged ahead, convinced of his noble purpose.

  John Baldoni

  Persistence, Greatness, Men

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• I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Knowing, Proud

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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I never doubted, not ever, that I would succeed.

  William H. Tunner

  Military, Succeed

  "Over the hump".

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• She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

  Charles de Lint

  Simple, Giving, Waiting

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• The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Reality, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Simon!” The voice was Clary’s. He would know it anywhere. He wondered if his mind was conjuring it up now, a sense memory of what he’d most loved during life to carry him through the process of death. “Simon, you stupid idiot! I’m over here! At the window!” Simon jumped to his feet. He doubted his mind would conjure that up.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Stupid, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Mean, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Doubt, Overcoming Doubt

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• Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Moving, Player, Thinking

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• It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  May, Sin, Repentance

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.323, Lulu Press, Inc

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