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"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."	André Gide
"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."	Ursula K. Le Guin
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..."	Václav Havel
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed."	Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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 can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic."	Hazel Henderson
"Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church; they suspect and dislike the clergy: they are impatient of theological systems; but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection."	Herbert Hensley Henson
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."	Theodore M. Hesburgh
"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."	Napolean Hill
"If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed."	Edwin Holt Hughes
"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture."	William James
"What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."	Nikos Kazantzakis
"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."	John Keats
"We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"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
"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
"There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."	Alfred Korzybaski
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Edwin Holt Hughes	Erich Fromm	F. F. Bosworth
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I Ching	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats
John Calvin	John C. Calhoun	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Max Ehrmann
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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