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"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. "	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream."	(Matthew) Heywood
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."	Abraham Lincoln
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."	Aesop
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."	Akhenaton
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."	Alan Alda
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."	Aleister Crowley
"There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."	Alfred Korzybaski
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."	André Gide
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."	Anwar el-Sadat
"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'"	Athenæus
"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."	Bergen
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."	Charles H. Mayo
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."	Cynthia Heimel
"Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose."	Dane Helmers
"If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed."	Edwin Holt Hughes
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."	Erich Fromm
"Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts."	F. F. Bosworth
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Abraham Lincoln	Aesop	Akhenaton
Alan Alda	Aleister Crowley	Alfred Korzybaski
André Gide	Anwar el-Sadat	Athenæus
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bergen	Charles Caleb Colton
Charles H. Mayo	Cynthia Heimel	Dane Helmers
Edwin Holt Hughes	Erich Fromm	F. F. Bosworth
George Gordon Byron	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	G Gaia
G. B. Burgin	Hazel Henderson	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Hensley Henson	Isaac Bashevis
I Ching	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats
John Calvin	John C. Calhoun	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Julius Henry Marx	Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Max Ehrmann
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Nancy Kerrigan	Napolean Hill
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikos Kazantzakis
Paul Anderson	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Robert Browning
Rollo May	R. I. Fitzhenry	Samuel Butler
Sir Francis Bacon	Sri da Avabhas	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas Carlyle	Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. Le Guin	Václav Havel	William James
Wilson Mizner	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling	(Matthew) Heywood