A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Alfred Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker finds sincere questioning more faithful than many formal statements of belief. Honest doubt is valued as an engaged search, rather than automatically being treated as the absence of faith.

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