Quotes About Doubt

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Juilin, she asked hesitantly, what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly, she added more quickly. Just a general idea. He looked at her for a moment. I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

Lan said the time to sound most sure was when you were least certain.

Mat snorted. "I don't want to be any bloody hero.

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not...well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.

But I thought you said we didn't have to worry, Perrin said, and Tam shook his head. I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

Ragan gave him a guarded look that said he agreed with every word but strongly doubted Uno's wisdom in voicing them. Ragan, it seemed, had the makings of a wise man in him.

What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

As sure as peaches are poison.

popped into his head then, one he did not want to ask, one

He could not decide whether she was an utter feather head, or very clever.

Caution until you're sure, and then a little more caution.

Always consider the possibility your assumptions are wrong

Why did you come up here, Sheriam Sedai?" For

I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse than I ever could. I

that you should believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

Aes Sedai believed a great many things to be true, and some of them actually were.

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer 

not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.