When there is a great deal of smoke, and no clear flame, it argues
much moisture in the matter, yet it witnesseth certainly that there is
fire there; and therefore dubious questioning is a much better
evidence, than that senseless deadness which most take for believing.
Men that know nothing in sciences, have no doubts. He never truly
believed, who was not made first sensible and convinced of unbelief.
Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe,
and doubt in order that you may end in believing the Truth. I will
venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the
following: