Quotes About Doubt

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is almost always right

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Well, mamma, the Indians believed they knew, but now we know they were wrong. By and by it can turn out that we are wrong. So now I only pray that there might be a God and a heaven – or something better.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. –Mark Twain

It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

More men go to church than want to.

In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

Truly, seeing is believing - and many a man lives a long life through, thinking he believes certain universally received and well established things, and yet never suspects that if he were confronted by those things once, he would discover that he did not really believe them before, but only thought he believed them.

It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so

It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren't we always acting lies? Then why not tell them?

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.