Quotes about Doubt
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
— CS Lewis
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
— Mark Twain
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
— Mark Twain
It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
— Mark Twain
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so
— Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
— Mark Twain
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.
— Mark Twain
Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl's child than you are!
— Mark Twain
The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.
— Mark Vonnegut
There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave.
— Audre Lorde