Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 107
“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”
“He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 87
Oration delivered at Daniel O'Connell celebration, Boston (6 August 1870), published in Wendell Phillips: The Agitator (1890) by William Carlos Martyn, p. 563
1870s
“Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.”
Original German text: "Zweifle nicht an dem der dir sagt er hat Angst, aber hab Angst vor dem der dir sagt, er kennt keinen Zweifel."
from "100 Gedichte ohne Vaterland", pub. 1978.
“When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.”
Kopal-Kundala, Chapter IV: With the Kapálik translated by Henry Arthur Deuteros Phillips (1885)
“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.”
Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits
So be it; or, The chips are down
Gallimard
1952
174
Original: (fr) Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 23.
