#doubting

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ↗

— John Bunyan

#castle #despair #doubting #giant #owner

If you are not comfortable with a decision, chances are high that it´s not the right one for you. If you still can change it, do it! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#deciding #decision-making #doubting #change

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#before #dared #darkness #deep #doubting

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ↗

— Stanislaus I

#believe #certainty #doubting #must

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes. ↗

— Henry Green

#court #doubting #every #face #fear

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#artistic #authority #doubting #even #experimenting

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cause #doubting #even #glimpse #laid

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

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions