Emma Donoghue Quotes

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Argument is conclusive … but … it does not remove doubt.

Faith is Doubt.

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

When I make a decision, I never am wrong, and I seldom have doubts.