Quotes About Doubt

Thus, with no one to advise her—for she could advise with no one without seeming to complain against him—gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr. Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her.

Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.

but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.

doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black. All through the cold and restless interval, until dawn, they once more whispered in the ears of Mr. Jarvis Lorry—sitting opposite the buried man who had been dug out, and wondering what

There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

K?sacas? do?ru oldu?unu bildi?im ?eyi yapmaya cesaret bulam?yordum; nas?l ki daha önce de yanl?? oldu?unu bildi?im ?eyden kaç?nacak cesareti gösteremeyi?im gibi.

If they can't make me innocent out of the whole truth, they are not likely to do it out of anything less, or anything else.

karars?zl?klar içinde bocalayarak ne anlat?lmaz i?kenceler çektim, Ulu Tanr?m! Aylarca her ak?am kendi sorular?m?, "Hay?r," diye yan?tlad?m; gene de ertesi sabah kendi kendime ayn? konuyu tazeleyip ayn? sorular? sormaktan kendimi alamad?m.

As he bowed to me in that tight state, I almost believed I saw creases come into the whites of his eyes.

was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it. At last, however, he began to think—as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it.

Doctor, if something goes wrong, there is probably squat-all we can do about it, anyway. I'm sure you folks have been chatting about the ship that just came in so you're probably guessing the same thing I am: that if these Dornaani wanted to put their foot up our ass and wriggle their toes out our nostrils, I doubt there's a thing in creation we could do about it.

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...

That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

...but a skepticism pointing to the past for its confirmation whispers to us that metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Five snoozes into your Monday alarm clock and you wonder if the $36 in your account will last the rest of your life if you quit.

The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith.

Pessimists — Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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