Quotes About Doubt

I watched her saunter over. It was something about her steps. Her arms crossed in front of her. Her timing. The deliberate casualness of it all. The muscles in my neck tightened. I didn't have a good feeling about it. Then she smiled, and I knew. Don't do this, Lia. But I really wasn't sure just what she was doing. I only knew no good would come of it. I knew the language of Lia. I

Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history?

Doubt was a poison I couldn't afford to sip.

Because everything was flying out of control. Because she was right - I wanted to trust her but I didn't. Because when I left a week ago, she had kissed me. Because I so stupidly loved her.

Los quizás podían retorcer cosas que en realidad nunca existieron

I know the arranged marriage planted seeds of doubt for you, but someone will come along, someone worthy of you. And you'll know it the minute you meet him." (pg 142)

Dia... het is zo. Ik begrijp er niet veel van, maar ik geloof je wél. Je komt uit een grote stad hier heel ver vandaan, waar je heel erg ziek bent, en hier ben je opeens gezond en wel. Hoe bestaat dat? - Arianna

Hij zei: "Bell is voor de duvel niet bang," wat dus absoluut niet waar is, maar toch...' 'Ik geloof dat je wel een kansje maakt.

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men's words.

I knew that if God had created a woman who could keep her man from straying, it probably wasn't me.

It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.

because the belief system has no doubt led to success in the past, so it will fight back with many varieties of self-fulfilling prophecies.

It was his nature to believe anything, before he would believe he could be wrong.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

The fear, too, is a fear of yourself: a completely dualistic and contradictory fear. On the one hand, it is the fear that you do not have what it takes to make it, and on the other hand, a possibly greater fear that you do have what it takes, and that by definition you therefore also have a responsibility to do something really big.

When we doubt, we learn to accept that we may not ever know. When we question, we learn to accept that there may be no answer. When we shout our doubt out into the universe, we learn to accept that we may be met with a silence we do not know how to read.

My mother would mock me. God is merely a weakness for people who need to believe.

because often the counterpart to high potential is feeling trapped and unsure while not knowing why.

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.