Quotes About Doubt

Only believe half you see and nothing you hear or read Laurence Elliott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

She told Figures that yes, the civil lawsuit against the Klan could be filed in her name. But she was still suspicious. She had learned long ago that the bigger a promise the less likely it would ever happen, and in her expertise that was doubly true when white men made the promise.

E la strada è inquietudine, sempre e comunque, perché non c'è dubbio che ho capito male la vita e l'ho coltivata ancor peggio, ma tanto, mio caro, il risultato è lo stesso.

Wij hebben het nu over jou. Vergeet niet, ik ben notaris geweest. Ik maak die dingen altijd af. Wat wil jij worden?' 'Ik weet het niet.' Hij begreep dat dat geen goed antwoord was, maar het was het enige, zelfs als iemand graag altijd alles afmaakte. Hij had geen flauw idee. Eigenlijk wist hij zeker dat hij nooit iets wou, maar ook nooit iets zóú worden. De wereld was al boordevol met mensen die iets waren, en de meesten waren er duidelijk niet gelukkig mee.

Most? What does that mean?

But I didn't know where she was going, Hannah whispers into the dark. I didn't know she was really going anywhere.

Later she would wonder if this had made her miss her chance, or if she had ever had a chance at all.

Blaine, on the other hand, just doesn't seem that reliable. He's the type who would cheat on Barbie with one of those Bratz sluts and then lie about it in the morning, even as Barbie discovered the creepy telltale amputeed boot in Blaine's sofa cushions.

Bir ÅŸeyi yapabileceÄŸimizi bilmek bize yetiyor, bu yüzden belki onu yapmaktan bile vazgeçiyoruz.

Chi è veriterio, si accontenta. Non sospetta nemmeno che potranno non credergli.

É difícil dizer onde acaba o pavor e começa a fé.

I don't know" is not a phrase for the insecure.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Finally, it is one aim of this book to press home the point that the logical issue is between Theism and Atheism. That there is no logical halting place between the two, and that any attempt to call a halt is little more than a concession to a desire for mental or social convenience, seems to me as clear as anything can well be.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Lucien thought. And as for Christianity, he agreed with his father: it was a well-intentioned set of beliefs that never worked in real life.

I have lost all faith in the steadfastness of human resolves.