Quotes About Doubt

If at any time your Prince should pretend your position with him is sure, begin from that moment to feel unsure.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. Yet I had faith in the intentions of my countrymen, no matter how far they might at times stray from those intentions.

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

The Lord had my trust, yet of others I was not so sure.

When you know that you know persecution comes easy.

confused begging of some philosophical question

Certitude leads to violence.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Until he knows he isn't a monster, how is anybody else supposed to know?

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

What worried him the most, however, wasn't that it was too late. What worried him the most, what really ate at his insides, was the fear that it wasn't too late.

Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!' ~Rosamond

You'll get over this after a while, and find some lovely accomplished girl, who will adore you, and make a fine mistress for your fine house. I shouldn't. I'm homely and awkward and odd and old, and you'd be ashamed of me, and we should quarrel—we can't help it even now, you see—and I shouldn't like elegant society and you would, and you'd hate my scribbling, and I couldn't get on without it, and we should be unhappy, and wish we hadn't done it, and everything would be horrid!

But I am afraid I don't

Poor little Margaret, no hope for you when Faust and Mephistopheles are one.

What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said Father Damien 'A man priest or a woman priest?'... ...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't answered, to put the question to rest, 'are you pretending to be a man priest?

Pierpont "will probably not think of asking us.

Somewhat paranoid to begin with, he assumed every tradesman was an extortion artist

Never sure of himself, Junior plodded ahead, always wondering where he was heading.

After all, the devil's work was now sprinkled with holy water.

As Grant later confessed to his wife in frank exasperation, "You know I have an 'S' in my name and don't know what it stand[s] for.

If she was not pretending, he concluded, then there must be a vulgar streak in her somewhere. Impossible that a man could really be in love with a girl if he could think about vulgar streaks in this way. If

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.