There lives more faith in honest doubt,

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): In Memoriam. xcvi. Stanza 3.

Modest doubt is call'd

The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches

To the bottom of the worst.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2.

I am going a long way

With these thou seëst—if indeed I go

(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)—

To the island-valley of Avilion,

Where falls not hail or rain or any snow,

Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies

Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns

And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea,

Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Passing of Arthur.

Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;

Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): Seek and Find.

No hinge nor loop

To hang a doubt on.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Better trust all, and be deceived,

And weep that trust and that deceiving,

Than doubt one heart, that if believed

Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Wendell Phillips (1811-1884): Faith.

Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

I pull in resolution, and begin

To doubt the equivocation of the fiend

That lies like truth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood

Do come to Dunsinane."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 375.

Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

To be once in doubt

Is once to be resolv'd.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

And better had they ne'er been born,

Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): The Monastery. Chap. xii.

For right is right, since God is God,

And right the day must win;

To doubt would be disloyalty,

To falter would be sin.

Christopher P Cranch (1813-1892): The Right must win.