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Quotes About Doubt

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
~ Henry Adams
This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.
~ Larry Kramer
Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
~ Will Rogers
Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.
~ Mardy Grothe
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
~ Bob Seger
They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.
~ Graham Greene
Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.
~ Roberto Mancini
Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.
~ Kiran Desai
I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
~ Ernst Mayr
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
~ Anais Nin
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.
~ Jackson Browne
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
~ Andre Gide
Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.
~ Alice Cooper
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.
~ Neil Young
What is it men cannot be made to believe!
~ Thomas Jefferson
Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
~ Clarice Lispector
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
~ Herman Melville
Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
~ Kim Campbell
I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.
~ Patti Davis
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
~ Richard Rorty
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.
~ Mary Todd Lincoln