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Quotes About Doubt

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my own eyes
~ Hemingway Ernest
Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.
~ Henning Mankell
He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He
~ Henning Mankell
Nos quejamos de lo mal que están las cosas, pero yo a veces me pregunto si no están ya mucho peor de lo que nos imaginamos
~ Henning Mankell
He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day's work had hardly involved more than collecting a large number of question marks.
~ Henning Mankell
La vida se compone de demasiados Quizás. Y de muy pocas cosas que se puedan saber con absoluta seguridad...
~ Henning Mankell
Sometimes, in my darkest moments, I'm afraid it might never again obey me, but I haven't given up hope altogether.
~ Henning Mankell
He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.
~ Henning Mankell
He doubted he would ever make it happen, but it made him feel a bit better, letting a dream form then watching it slowly fade away again. A
~ Henning Mankell
The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.
~ Henning Mankell
Rumours don't usually get started without a reason. - Kurt Wallander
~ Henning Mankell
Holding the cup of life means looking critically at what we are living. This requires great courage, because when we start looking, we might be terrified by what we see. Questions may arise that we don't know how to answer. Doubts may come up about things we thought we were sure about. Fear may emerge from unexpected places.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I've yet to meet anyone who has come closer to Jesus by forsaking the church.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The problem, however, is that we not only want our freedom but also fear it.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~ Henry Adams
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If ever I was sure that someone was coming to help me, I should run like hell.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Thus we kept on like true idealists, rejecting the evidence of our senses
~ Henry David Thoreau
A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And Elijah Wood, I fear for no good:
~ Henry David Thoreau