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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
André Gide - Ainsi soit-il ou Les jeux sont faits / 



Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.




We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 



We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.




But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.

Bertolt Brecht - Lob des Zweifels / 






When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 






To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 



To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell / 






If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 






Doubt always arises from the fact that things are investigated without order.
Baruch Spinoza / 






Doubt is the father of invention.
Galileo Galilei / 






Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain / 






When in doubt, leave it out.
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain - Pudd'nhead Wilson / 






The opposite of falsehood is not truth, but doubt.
Raphaël Enthoven / 






If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon / 






To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






No need to be praised when you are sure of yourself. He who seeks praise doubts his own worth.
Gustave Le Bon / 






Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 






Don't waste life in doubts and fears.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
Henry David Thoreau / 






We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.
Bertrand Russell / 






Jealousy lives upon doubt; and comes to an end or becomes a fury as soon as it passes from doubt to certainty.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason / 






Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 






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