Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

He who dallies is a dastard,
He who doubts is damned.

He who dallies is a dastard,
He who doubts is damned.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
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I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.

To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.

Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people read more

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.