doubt Quotes

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kill.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.