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If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

— Robert Dale Owen

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Albert Pike

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

— James H. Boren

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

— Gary Busey

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

— Napoleon Hill

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

— Bill Nye

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

— Jerry Pournelle

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

— Arthur Henderson

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

— William Lloyd Garrison

✗Opposing Perspectives

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

— Sallust

If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

— Roh Moo-hyun