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"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
"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
"A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic."	Henry Louis Mencken
"All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love."	Sri da Avabhas
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."	André Gide
"Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts."	F. F. Bosworth
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."	Abraham Lincoln
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."	Kahlil Gibran
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."	Isaac Bashevis
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever."	Nancy Kerrigan
"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
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement."	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"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
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."	Kahlil Gibran
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt."	Henry Louis Mencken
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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