Quotes About Doubt

We live untruth amid evidence of untruth.

I'm bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false. They're deceiving themselves.

Schmucker draws a sharp distinction between Shakespeare the man and Shakespeare the poet, in what would soon be a favourite gambit of those who doubted his authorship:

Few Americans—or members of Congress—read The Public Interest. Still, the rapid rise of the neo-cons to intellectual respectability was revealing. And their complaints, especially about the dead hand of bureaucracy, epitomized a new mood of doubt.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

Por qué no le preguntó usted como era que se encontraba allí con el? Encendí un cigarro y contesté: - Señora, tenía miedo de que desapareciera de repente

It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christian.

When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: "According to tradition..." or "According to the legislature..." Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.15

I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

I have no talent for certainty.

the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

I will not allow books to prove any thing. But how shall we prove any thing? We never shall.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?