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 2. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlistin the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

 3. A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

 4. Always to think the worst, I have ever found to be the mark of a mean spirit and a base soul.

 5. An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.

 6. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt, be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? Great doubts deep wisdom...

 7. Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

 8. Despair is the conclusion of fools.

 9. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

10. Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

11. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

12. Doubt is the father of invention. Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

13. Doubt is the key to knowledge.

14. Doubt is the opposite of belief.

15. Doubt separates people.It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.It is at horn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

16. Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

17. 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.

18. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone.

19. 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.

20. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

21. He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

22. If the Sun and Moon should doubt They'd immediately Go out.

23. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far aspossible, all things.

24. In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

25. Industry pays debts, despair increases them.

26. It is as hard for the good to suspect evil as it is for the bad to suspect good.

27. Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

28. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

29. Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

30. Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.

31. Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

32. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

33. Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

34. Pessimist:One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

35. Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

36. Small doubts little wisdom.

37. Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

38. Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

39. Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its own weight impedes more than protects.

40. Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.

41. Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one I'll trust him no further than I can fling him.

42. Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

43. The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

44. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

45. The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

46. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

47. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

48. There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

49. There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

50. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

51. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions insmother.

52. There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

53. There is one safe guard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

54. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

55. There was a castle called Doubting Castle,the owner where of was Giant Despair.

56. To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

57. To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

58. True wisdom is less presuming than folly.

59. We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

60. When you doubt, abstain.

61. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

62. Who never doubted, never half believed.