Quotes About Doubt

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

The truly humble person always walks in doubt about his own virtues, and usually those he sees in his neighbors seem more certain and more valuable.