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"Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."	Thomas Carlyle
"Materialists and madmen never have doubts."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair."	I Ching
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."	Charles Caleb Colton
"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
"Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement."	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing."	Marquis de Sade
"I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure."	Marquis de Sade
"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
"You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should."	Max Ehrmann
"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
"Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."	Bergen
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."	R. I. Fitzhenry
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."	Erich Fromm
"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."	G Gaia
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."	Kahlil Gibran
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."	Kahlil Gibran
"Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."	Kahlil Gibran
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