Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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