Quotes About Doubt

It wasn't so easy like you think. Everybody was so starving and frightened, and tired they couldn't believe even what's in front of their eyes.

What are you doing, Dave?

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.

Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.

Civilization and Religion are incompatible" and "Faith is believing what you know isn't true.

Once, I believed that space could have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God's handwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men's faiths, but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

When this book was written in the early 1950s, I was still quite impressed by the evidence for what is generally called the paranormal, and used it as a main theme of the story. Four decades later, after spending some millions of dollars of Yorkshire Television's money researching my Mysterious World and Strange Powers programmes, I am an almost total skeptic. I have seen far too many claims dissolve into thin air, far too many demonstrations exposed as fakes.

It still believed in everything that the Master had taught it; though it had seen him fake his miracles and tell lies to his followers, these inconvenient facts did not affect its loyalty. It was able, like many humans before it, to reconcile two conflicting sets of data.

He was, Sadler thought glumly, rather in the position of a man in a darkened coal cellar, looking for a black cat that might not be there. What was worse, to make the analogy more accurate he would have to be a man who didn't know what a cat looked like, even when he saw one.

but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

There can be no reasonable doubt: the ancient mystery is solved at last. Yet, oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.

We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.

Kalau kausingkirkan semua yang mustahil, apa pun yang tersisa, betapapun mustahilnya, adalah kebenaran.

It is not what we know, but what we can prove.

we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.

Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence," I remarked. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.

I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate.

straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.

Confío en no ser más torpe que mis semejantes, pero siempre me oprimía una sensación de estupidez al tratar con Sherlock Holmes.

What makes you think anyone has a roadmap? You think I know where I'm going? That I ever have? We're all mice stumbling in our mazes, trying to find our cheese. Hoping the levers we're pulling are the right ones and not the ones designed to shock us.

But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.