Quotes About Doubt

Then she knew what she had done, and remembered to have heard that a girl who expresses a doubt is supposed to have gone beyond doubting. While

Then she asked herself the fatal question, was she in love with Reginald Morton? I do not think that she answered herself in the affirmative, but she became more and more sure that she could never marry Larry Twentyman.

She thought so badly of men and women generally, and of Mr Broune and herself as a man and a woman individually, that she was unable to conceive the possibility of such a sacrifice.

She felt sure that she never could love him. Had it been on the cards with her to love any man as a lover, it would have been some handsome spendthrift who would have hung from her neck like a nether millstone. This

Mr. Harding neither could nor would believe anything of the sort, and he thought, moreover, that Mr. Slope was rather impertinent to call himself by such a name. His assured friend, indeed! How many assured friends generally fall to the lot of a man in this world? And by what process are they made? And how much of such process had taken place as yet between Mr. Harding and Mr. Slope?

There are men who rarely think well of women, — who hardly think well of any woman. They put their mothers and sisters into the background, — as though they belonged to some sex or race apart, — and then declare to themselves and to their friends that all women are false, — that no woman can be trusted unless her ugliness protect her;

CHAPTER LXXIII 'IS IT TANTI?

menses and was often ill. Was she carrying his child?

Vivir no es otra cosa que arder en preguntas.

The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the secret of fascination. And in his book, St Augustine does not doubt the reality of this fascination for one moment.

No sé si voy a volver. Siento que cada vez son menos las cosas que me atan a este lugar

There was indeed fear in hoping

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Why should an all-loving father lead his child into temptation? Why must he be implored not to? At that moment in Ursula's drafty chamber, Celia renounced God. She would cease to worry about religion. She would conform to any outward acts which seemed expedient at the time, and she would guide her own life as she saw fit. Her own will and desires should be her sole criteria. All else was inconsistency or downright lies. And nothing was worth suffering for.

Every Reason to Lie

If Kayla is alive, I wonder if she really wants to be.

Sometimes why is the most important question.

But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right. I

Es de importancia para quien desee encontrar una certeza en su investigación, el saber dudar a tiempo.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

Who, however, is in doubt 'and' awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn't believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mÅ·thos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.' (Aristotle's Metaphysics: Book I. Part II)

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

De man is dood. En als hij echt dood wilde had een gedwongen opname toch niet geholpen, dat is Kadoke's misschien wat fatalistische opvatting; zij die vastbesloten zijn te sterven vinden altijd wel een manier. Hij kan eigenlijk alleen de twijfelaars beschermen, zij die onzeker zijn, die zich nog wel willen bedenken, voor wie de allerergste wanhoop niet meer is dan een fase.