Quotes About Doubt

Hmm. I don't know if that's a 'yes' or a 'go eat worms,'" Rollan admitted.

Do you trust YOUR talons do you trust them do you?

You were attacked by an albatross?" Clearsight said skeptically. "With … tentacles?

Aha," Rollan said. "I knew that boll weevil in my soup last night looked suspicious.

Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT?

Starflight looked as if someone had just asked him whether breathing was really necessary.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn't enough sometimes.

Whether Mrs Williams liked her daughters at all was doubtful: she loved them, of course, and had 'sacrificed everything for them', but there was not much room in her composition for liking – it was too much taken up with being right

Never be distressed, honey. I know her faults as well as any man.' 'Of course, she is very beautiful,' said Sophia, glancing at him timidly. 'Yes. Tell me, is Diana wholly in love with Jack?' 'I may be wrong,' she said, after a pause, 'I know very little about these things, or anything else; but I do not believe Diana knows what love is at all.

Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel.

Even in the face of contrary evidence, the psychopath can lie so well that listeners doubt themselves first, rather than question the psychopath.

psychopaths will lie even to people who already know the truth about what they are saying. Amazingly, more often than not, victims will eventually come to doubt their own knowledge of the truth and change their own views to believe what the psychopath tells them rather than what they know to be true.

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

May Allah bless you. Or had she said: May Allah burn you? He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.

Notice how atheists who believe in real right and wrong make a massive intellectual leap of faith. They believe that somehow moral facts were eternally part of the "furniture" of reality but that from impersonal and valueless slime, human persons possessing rights, dignity, worth, and duties were eventually produced.

End? You don't mean like, dead end?

the tendency to believe something despite there being either evidence to the contrary, or no evidence at all.

To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran's skepticism.

To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran's skepticism. You have to be able to think how hard can it be? with one half of your brain while thinking it will never work with the other.

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

If reports about a candidate talk about how something "raises questions," creates "shadows," or anything similar, be aware that these are all too often weasel words used to create the impression of wrongdoing out of thin air.

Are you sure what you're doing is wrong?

It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.