Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
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.