Quotes About Doubt

Dac? am fi avut convingeri, oare am fi avut m?car curajul s? le urm?m?

The good people of Kibbencook, indeed all human beings, want answers, not questions, from their religious leaders. No matter.

Indeed, Constance. All lawyers are guilty. But this one, I think, is more guilty than most.

As I delved deeper into these Christian mystics, I was beginning to question in my own mind if I needed to make a path change from Zen Buddhism to Christianity. It had been many years since I'd been to my first Catholic mass, and I decided to go back a second time.

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.

Too credulous a woman's longing flies And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

Every tale is not to be believed.

They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

How can I go on living here and suspecting everybody ?

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.

You weren't quite accurate just now." "I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?

It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.

Lo imposible no puede haber sucedido; por tanto, lo imposible tiene que ser posible, a pesar de las apariencias.