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Quotes About Doubt

And yet, at the very door the Musketeer began to entertain some doubts. The approach was not such as to prepossess people—an ill-smelling, dark passage, a staircase half-lighted by bars through which stole a glimmer from a neighboring yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
~ Alfred Bester
I believe,' he thought. 'I have faith.' He jaunted again and failed again. 'Faith in what?' he asked himself, adrift in limbo. 'Faith in faith,' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
~ Alfred Bester
Faith in faith," he answered himself. "It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
~ Alfred Bester
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
~ Alfred Bester
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
~ Alfred Korzybski
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
~ Alice Hoffman
The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.
~ Alice Hoffman
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
~ Alice Hoffman
She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.
~ Alice Hoffman
I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles.
~ Alice Hoffman
In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.
~ Alice Hoffman
Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.
~ Alice Hoffman
Believers with nothing to believe in.
~ Alice Hoffman
Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something...
~ Alice Hoffman
Was it possible to know anyone, truly?
~ Alice Hoffman
Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me.
~ Alice Hoffman
The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.
~ Alice Hoffman
I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles." "Yeah, right. Faith is for idiots." Ben seems relieved. "Statistics speak the truth." "You have to stop thinking. It's going to drive us
~ Alice Hoffman
I didn't know if I could speak even if I tried.
~ Alice Hoffman
He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak.
~ Alice Hoffman
Shelby has absolutely nothing inside of her. She's a black hole. A sinkhole. A whole lot of nothing. She's told Ben that, but he doesn't want to believe her. Who would have imagined he'd turn out to be such an optimist?
~ Alice Hoffman
Maybe," she said to Pauline, not looking at her, just turning her head a bit to speak to her from across the aisle and over her shoulder. Not whispering either. "Maybe it was just the wind.
~ Alice McDermott