#doubt

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts. ↗

— James P. Hogan

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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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