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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
Alfred Korzybski
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
George Orwell
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“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.”
Ambrose Bierce
“There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead”
Arthur Honegger
“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.”
W. C. Fields
“We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject”
Bertrand Russell
