“To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)
“My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.”
Source: Anna Karenina Notes
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Am wenigsten widerstehen kann ich dem Zweifel. Ich bezweifle alles, selbst meinen Zweifel. Ich glaube wenig und auch das nicht ganz. Skepsis ist für mich keine der «schönen Künste », sondern Teil meiner Existenz. <br class="br"> deschner.info http://www.deschner.info/de/person/zitate.htm
“I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.”
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
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Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
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“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
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Source: Complete Works
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
“I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind”
Han-shan Chinese monk and poet
Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry
Context: Today I sat before the cliff
Until the mist and rainbows disappeared
I followed the emerald stream
Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs
In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds
At night a bright moon floats in the sky
I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind
