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• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

  Rollo May

  Relationship, Peace, Mean

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Success, Faith, Motivation

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• Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Looks, Succeed

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• Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Children

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.132, NavPress

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• The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, pp. 15 - 16, 2000.

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• Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

  Charles Darwin

  Lasts, Rate, Conclusion

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.119, NYU Press

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

  William H. Tunner

  Military, Succeed

  "Over the hump".

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• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Children, Teaching

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• Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Fans

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• I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

  Robert Breault

  Angel, Guardian, Born

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• Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Ideas, Identity

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• Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Years, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin (1806). “The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memoirs of His Early Life”, p.79

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• The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Doubt, Belief, Believer

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• Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Doubt, Atheism, Shadow

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.83

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• ... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

  Rebecca West

  Beautiful, Eye, Errors

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Artist, Blessing, Years

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• The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity or infidelity here. No prophecies, no miracles are necessary to prove this celestical communication. This revelation has made it certain that two and one make three, and that one is not three nor can three be one. We can never be so certain of any prophecy, or the fulfilment of any prophecy, or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle, as we are from the revelation of nature, that is, nature's God, that two and two are equal to four.

  John Adams

  Communication, Two, Miracle

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.66

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• Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

  John Denham

  Doubt, Despair, Way

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.224

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• Yes, I have doubted. I have wandererd off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. It is beyond the logic I seek. It is intuitive - an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem to find my way home. My faith has wavered but has saved me.

  Helen Hayes

  Home, Way, Path

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

  John Adams

  Honesty, Tyrants, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.473

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• You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

  John Denham

  Doubt, Prove, Knows

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• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Religious, Book, Teaching

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