Quotes About Doubt

It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.

it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

I'm not a betting man.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.