Quotes About Doubt

His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend? There are other ghosts than the Cock-Lane one, and far deeper men than Doctor Johnson who believe in them.

But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me.

Dudas de todas las cosas terrenales e intuiciones de algunas cosas celestiales: esta combinación no produce ni un creyente ni un incrédulo, sino que produce un hombre que las considera a ambas con iguales ojos.

But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I obey? Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.

But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Non di rado accade che, quando un uomo si trova contrariato in modo inconsueto e violentemente assurdo, egli cominci a nutrir dubbi sulle sue più salde convinzioni. Egli comincia, per così dire, a dubitare vagamente che, per strana che la cosa possa sembrare, la ragione e la giustizia si trovino dall'altra parte.

Sin embargo, a la mañana siguiente, al despertarme, me surgieron las dudas -de alguna manera, con el sueño, se me habían pasado los humos de la vanidad-. Uno de los momentos más serenos y acertados que tiene un hombre es justo por la mañana, al despertarse.

Ama inanç, bir çakal gibi mezar taÅŸlar? aras?nda beslenir ve en canl? umutlar?n? bile bu ölü kuÅŸkulardan devÅŸirir.

The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.

Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and fearful. It would be just as silly to assert that disbelief in God is a crutch for the immoral and the ill-read.

Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it. I am broken and bored, Is there any reward? Reassure me, Good Lord, And inform me about it. Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar. [bk.12]

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

and said to him: 'Eumaios, this is amazing, this dog that lies on the dunghill. The shape of him is splendid, and yet I cannot be certain whether he had the running speed to go with this beauty, or is just one of the kind of table dog that gentlemen 310 keep, and it is only for show that their masters care for them.

Terrified humans by the score allow unprovable concepts to take up residence in their skulls.

the prayers of those who hold religion in one hand, and

tending to atheisme.

All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I consider that I am to be envied.

It can't be Miss Worlock