Quotes About Doubt

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

You're going to let her wander into someone else's arms? There's another man who could protect her better than you? Well, if that's true—

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.

We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

I agree about Shaw -- he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

What is the matter -a soul? You say a soul? Oh, damn it! We may soon retrogress even to the cholera epidemics.

From my own experience I know that the cruelest thing is to make a person doubt his own reality...

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.

He who is determined to acquire common sense will use the following argument: "Doubt is a conflict between two conclusions. "So long as it exists it is impossible to adopt either. "Serenity is unknown to those whom doubt attacks. "To obtain peace, it is necessary to become enlightened, "However, it is wise always to foresee the least happy issue and to prepare to support the consequences

Do que adianta a ciência... se nem uma vida pode salvar...?

otherwise you will always be running. Have trust and faith to guide you like a torch piercing darkness. Do not believe and do not deny, but find out for yourself – for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.

Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.

With a heart unaccustomed to doubting, he never wondered for an instant whether the girl would brave such a storm to keep their rendezvous. He knew nothing of that melancholy and all-too-effective way of passing time by magnifying and complicating his feelings, whether of happiness or uneasiness, through the exercise of imagination.

Those who believe, believe everything, while those who doubt don't believe a thing.

Onaj ko uvek nosi samo konfekcijske haljine, uvek je spreman da po?ne da sumnja u postojanje kroja?a.

Minha consciência não passava de uma ferramenta de distorção, e meu controle, de conjecturas incertas, pura adivinhação. [...] O auto-engano era agora minha última esperança. Um ferido não exige que o curativo improvisado esteja necessariamente limpo

Küsides, mille nimel ta elab, muutub iga inimene rahutuks ja võib end isegi tappa. Mulle piisab ainuüksi sellest, et olemas olla. Kas kahtlus iseenda eksistentsi pärast ei teki just liigsest rahuolematusest, et ei elata täiel rinnal?

The person that I like is someone that I am uneasy about...