Quotes About Doubt

Negativní komplexy u ?lovÄ›ka, který trpí nedostatkem sebelásky, jsou tak silné, že ni?í i to, co by ho mohlo posílit. Jakmile si totiž ?lovÄ›k najde nÄ›co nebo nÄ›koho dobrého, zamíchají se do toho komplexy a dají zrod pochybám, které zmaÃ…â"¢í nadÄ›ji dostat se ze situace tímto sp?sobem.

Oare femeile nu n?d?jduiesc totdeuna altceva decât ceea ce este?

The wise man says: Perhaps?

De oly mélységesen izgatottnak érezte magát, hogy fölmerült benne ez a kérdés: félhet-e az ember akarata ellenére? És elárasztotta lelkét ez a kétely, ez a nyugtalanság, ez a borzalom. Mi történik akkor, ha egy akaratánál erÅ'sebb, uralkodó és ellenállhatatlan hatalom legyÅ'zi? Igen, mi történik akkor?

I ask myself whether I am mad. As I was walking just now in the sun by the riverside, doubts as to my own sanity arose in me; not vague doubts such as I have had hitherto, but precise and absolute doubts. I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point.

But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. BERTRAND RUSSELL

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure.

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come-but I must not and cannot think! Let me pray that, if I do survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. - H.L. Mencken

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable.

I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

But I do not fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear for him.

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures

There were creakings, scurryings, and hoarse doubtful noises; and I thought uncomfortably about the hidden tunnels suggested by the grocery boy.

Is it possible that even my latest fear is sheer delusion?

Her words made him realize that his wife must have been lonely when he was away. He hadn't thought she had her own ideas and feelings. More worrisome, she never doubted that they would stay together for the rest of their lives. What a simple-hearted woman! This realization distressed him and foiled his first attempt at a divorce.

nothing is true that cannot be proven--and therefore, it's not true.