Quotes About Doubt

I don't know which is right!

I think now that White's quest for the hawks was his final test of Gos: he was behaving like a fearful man who has finally won someone's love and, unsure whether that love can be trusted, decides it is safer to obsess about someone else.

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" "I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if she'd ever told him that, and if so, what he had to say about it. Someone you made up turns around and tells you they believe in you— what response could you possibly make? The scenario is just plain weird. And really kind of impertinent on her part, too. If it happened to me I think I'd be speechless for the rest of my life.

With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.

Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle to hide the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about. And other times--too often, maybe--I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.

We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether.

But then, maybe "I don't believe in you" is the cruellest way to kill a monster.

Why are you reading that book? Are you in doubt about something?

Her superpower was picking emotionally unavailable partners and she doubted she'd get a better offer

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

I look suspiciously at the half-empty glass in my hand.

Tal vez sea cierto, o tal vez no. Porque ahora, al mirar a mi alrededor en la alfombra, siento una certeza: está aquí.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

An aeroplane booms overhead. We follow its evolutions with our faces skyward, our necks twisted, our eyes watering at the piercing brightness of the sky. Lamuse declares to me, when we have brought our gaze back to earth, "Those machines 'll never become practical, never." "How can you say that? Look at the progress they've made already, and the speed of it." "Yes, but they'll stop there. They'll never do any better, never.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not yet the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear and undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light and serenity.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.