“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”
“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…”
"On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
“Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
Context: The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 593
Sunni Hadith
Variant: Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali said, "I memorised from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, 'Leave what gives you doubt for what gives you no doubt.'"
“When in doubt, be ridiculous.”
Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)
Source: Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
“What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
Source: Holidays on Ice
