Doubt

Doubt

Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived "reality", and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness. Some definitions of doubt emphasize the state in which the mind remains suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them (compare paradox).

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Famous quotes containing the word doubt:

    “It is no doubt possible to fly—but first you must know how to dance like an angel.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “Things perceived by the senses are immediately perceived by the senses; and things immediately perceived by the senses are ideas; and ideas cannot exist without the mind, their existence therefore consists in being perceived; when therefore they are actually perceived, there can be no doubt of their existence.”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)