If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese Proverb The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell. Willmott Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God. T. T. Munger We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it. C. C. Colton It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. C. C. Colton He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion. Richard Whately The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. Joseph Joubert Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth. G. Campbell |