Quotes About Doubt

I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.

When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically receive one of two things - a friend for life, or a lesson for life.

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you will believe them, but if they tell you that a wall has wet paint, you will have to touch it to be sure?

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is...always an enemy to happiness.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

If explanations are needed, then what's the meaning of trust?

If you are faithful and honest, you will not think negatively about your partner and u will never doubt him or her.

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailment succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

since one has doubts of them at the moment when one believes in them, and never can possess their hearts as I used to receive, in her kiss, the heart of my mother, complete, without scruple or reservation, unburdened by any liability save to myself)

he never dared to allow this smile a definite expression on his features,

In my adolescence, when I believed exactly what I was told, doubtless, on hearing the German Government protest its good faith, I should have been inclined to believe it, but now for a long time I had realised that our thoughts do not always correspond with our words.

He knew himself so little that he doubtless imagined that he was in love with her, perhaps indeed that he would be in love with her always

in spite of having witnessed the birth of the telephone they decline to believe in the aeroplane.

Los hechos no penetran en el mundo donde viven nuestras creencias, y como no les dieron vida no las pueden matar; pueden estar desmintiéndolas constantemente sin debilitarlas, y un alud de desgracia o enfermedades que una tras otra padece una familia, no le hace dudar de la bondad de su Dios ni de la pericia de su médico.

jealousy belonging to that family of unhealthy doubts far more easily removed by the vigor of an affirmation than by its plausibility.

A peculiarity of love, moreover, is that it makes us at once more mistrustful and more credulous, makes us quicker to suspect the one we love than we would have another woman, and to be readier to lend credence to her denials.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

Albertine would in any case either not have given me any answer or else a "no" in which the "n" would have been too hesitant and the "o" too resonant. Albertine never recounted facts that might harm her,

My happiness and my life needed Albertine to be virtuous, thus they had posited once for all that she was. Armed with this salutary faith, I could safely allow my mind to play sadly with the suppositions which it formulated without believing in them. I thought, "Perhaps she does love women," as one thinks, "I might die during the night"; we say the words to ourselves, but we do not believe them, we make plans for the morrow.

I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.

I had the feeling of something inside me that flipped like a fish in a net. It was hope. As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.