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Doubt Quotes - Page 59

To saucy doubts and fears.

To saucy doubts and fears.

'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.90, Courier Corporation

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.23

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.433, Oxford University Press, USA

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

"Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Protestant Mystics"), (p. 51), 1973.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4325, Delphi Classics

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Victoria Moran (2009). “Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”, p.29, Harper Collins