I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
There is a vulgar incredulity which in historical matters as well as in those of religion finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.
There's naught no doubt so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Conserving energy and thus saving money reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.