Quotes About Doubt

Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.

Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.