"ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy,..."
- Dorothy Parker
"I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way bey..."
- Walt Whitman
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
- Douglas Adams
"Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death."
- Miguel de Unamuno
"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."
- Toba Beta
"Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Becau..."
- Paulo Coelho
"Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself."
"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
- William Goldman
"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
- George Carlin
"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to ..."
- P.G. Wodehouse