Quotes About Doubt

There are certain humiliating moments in the lives of the greatest of men. It has been said that no man is a hero to his valet. To that may be added that few men are heroes to themselves at the moment of visiting their dentist.

Yes. If there is a murderer in the woodpile—and I think there is, Hastings. Yes, I think there is….

That old mountebank? He won't find out anything. He's all talk and moustaches.

You should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.

mucho. —¿Y yo? —¿Tú? —Sí, yo. —¡Oh, yo no podría! —¿Por qué no? —No, porque no puedo.

Lombard thought: Awkward, this—am I supposed to have met them or not? He said quickly: "There's a wasp crawling up your arm. No—keep quite still.

It Isn't Strychnine, Is It?

Don't you," I said wearily. "You're a young man. You're zealous in the cause of right. When you get to my age, you'll find that you like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

The judge nodded gently. He said: 'Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.

Yes, I remember the one you mean. All a lot of hooey, though.

Carl Reiter shook his head. He said helplessly: "I guess I don't know anything at all, sir.

Io sospetto di tutti fino all'ultimo momento» replicò.

Well, none of you guessed,' said Jane. 'Except Miss Marple.' The worried expression returned to her face. 'Dolly, do you really think there are many like her?' 'Frankly, I don't,' said Mrs. Bantry.

Everyone looked at each other. Somehow—nobody quite knew what to say. 'All rot, of course,' said Ronnie with an uneasy laugh.

So she's a liar too!" I said. "The cool way she answered you this morning about these same letters!

Shall I neglect you a little?' suggested Tommy. 'Take other women about to night clubs. That sort of thing.' 'Useless,' said Tuppence. 'You would only meet me there with other men. And I should know perfectly well that you didn't care for the other women, whereas you would never be quite sure that I didn't care for the other men. Women are so much more thorough.

Had I been looking at the case upside down?

My dear Caroline," I said. "There's no doubt at all about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his." Caroline dissented. She said that if the man was a hairdresser, he would have wavy hair—not straight. All hairdressers did.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Faith can't be reasoned with. Otherwise it would've been called Fact.

People have blind faith in confident fools

I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.