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ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure
certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it." | |
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Alexandre Dumas
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| "And better had they ne"er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to
scorn." | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end." | |
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Proverb
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| "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin
brother." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were
doubters." | |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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| "Doubt isn"t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." | |
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Paul Tillich
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| "Doubt that the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth shine Doubt
that truth be a liar But never doubt that I love." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." | |
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Christian Nestell Bovée
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| "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious
boom. And the church"s response to this current situation will reveal,
better than anything else, our faith in God - or our faithlessness. If we
churchmen interpret such pervasive doubt as a threat, then we will do as
the church has done so often in the past: we will substitute the church
for God, and make our church-centered activities into an ersatz kingdom of
God. Our faithlessness will be evident in the easy paraphrase of the hard
truth of the gospel, and in the lapse from the critical loyalty that God
requires of us, into the vague and corrupting sentimentalism that has so
marred American Protestantism. Or the church can interpret the present
religious situation as a promise, as God"s recall of His people to a new
reformation. Our faithfulness to God-in-Christ will be manifest in the
willingness to be honest with ourselves and with the gospel. Then we may
view the church, not as an end in itself, but as the point of departure
into the world for which the Son of God died. Which will it be?" | |
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Carl R. Smith
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| "Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should
not believe." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Guidelines for bureaucrats: 1) When in charge ponder 2) When in
trouble delegate 3) When in doubt mumble." | |
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James H. Boren
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| "I love to doubt as well as know." | |
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Dante Alighieri
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| "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I
have plenty of doubts of my own." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in
your life doubt, as far as possible, all things." | |
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René Descartes
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| "Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death." | |
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Miguel de Unamuno
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| "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to
believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the
stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "To philosophize is to doubt." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "When in doubt, tell the truth." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of
scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one
word is too much." | |
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Fen-Yang
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| "Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth
is - it is her shadow." | |
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Bailey
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