| A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. -- Alexandre (père) Dumas |
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Dumas, Alexandre (père)Era:
1802 |
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| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Author:
Napoleon IEra:
1769 |
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| Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| When in doubt tell the truth. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. -- Tyron Edwards |
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Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. -- Colette |
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ColetteEra:
1873 |
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| When you doubt, abstain. -- Zoroaster |
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ZoroasterEra:
-628 |
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| It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. -- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova De Seingalt |
| Author:
Seingalt, Giovanni J.Era:
1827 |
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| A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. -- Aesop |
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AesopEra:
-550 |
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| One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. -- Robert Browning |
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Browning, RobertEra:
1812 |
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| doubt is the father of invention. -- Galileo |
| Author:
GalileoEra:
1564 |
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| Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. -- Paracelsus |
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ParacelsusEra:
1493 |
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