"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

Doubt, Vigilance

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"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake, English Poet

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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

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"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

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