It is a harmful error

"It is a harmful error to assume we understand something
Simply because it agrees with what we already believe."

~Vernon Howard

It's hard

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

~Sally Kempton

Our doubts

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

~William Shakespeare

If

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt,
they'd immediately go out.

~William Blake

It is an undoubted truth

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

~Earl of Chesterfield

If Aragorn survives

If Aragorn survives this war, you will still be parted. If Sauron is defeated and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for you, no comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death an image of the splendor of the kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell bound to your grief under the fading trees until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent.

~Elrond, The Lord of the Rings

This is a work of fiction

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

~Neil Gaiman

Where there is great doubt

Where there is great doubt,
there will be great awakening;
small doubt, small awakening,
no doubt, no awakening."

- Zen saying

All is theft

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

~Marquis De Sade

For nothing

For nothing worthe proving can be proven
Nor yet disproven: wherefore thow be wise,
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of Doubt.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Our doubts

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

~William Shakespeare

Nature

Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.

~Vincent A. Simeone

The ancients did not doubt

The ancients did not doubt that men could choose and, through choice, exercise some control over the disposition of their lives. Tacitus, for example…claims that ‘the wisest of the ancients leave us the capacity of choosing our life'.

~Mortimer J. Adler

Fidelity

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

~Real Live Preacher

Human beings

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

~Laurens Van der Post

As long as

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

~Samuel Johnson

We think having faith

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

~Real Live Preacher

Valmiki the Poet

Valmiki the Poet
looked down into water held cupped in his hand and saw into the past.
Before he looked,
he thought the world was sweet poison. Men seemed to be living in lies,
not knowing where their ways went.
The days seemed
made of ignorance and doubt, and cast from deception and illusion.
But in the water
he saw—a dream, a chance,
and a great adventure.
Valmiki trusted the True
and forgot the rest.
He found the whole universe
like a bright jewel
set firm in forgiving and held fast
by love.

~Ramayana