Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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.
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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.
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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