You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know
Is too frequently learning to doubt.
[Fr., Vous read more
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know
Is too frequently learning to doubt.
[Fr., Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher a connaitre
N'est souvent qu' apprendre a douter.]
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
He who dallies is a dastard,
He who doubts is damned.
He who dallies is a dastard,
He who doubts is damned.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his read more
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
