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"I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."
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Doubt"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."
Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, and is uncertain about them. Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief. It may involve uncertainty, distrust or lack of conviction on certain facts, actions, motives, or decisions. Doubt can result in delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concern for mista
"I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."
"Doubt is natural to a human being, for his conceptions are infinite, his powers are only finite."
"I may be wrong, and often am, but I never doubt."
"To get rid of your doubts, part with your sin. Put away your intemperance, your dishonesty, your unlawful ways of making money, your sensuality, your falsehood, acted or spoken, and see if a holy life be not the best disperser of unwelcome doubts, and new obedience the most certain guide to fresh assurance."
"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. ... its much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. ... Im not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I dont know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why were here ... I might think about it a little bit ... but I dont have to know an answer, I dont feel frightened about not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it is as far as I can tell. It doesnt frighten me."