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.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.

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.

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.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have read more

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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

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

The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the read more

The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To th' bottom of the worst.