Quotes about doubt
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“Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.”

John Stuart Mill book Considerations on Representative Government

In a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (May 31, 1866). Hansard, vol 183, col 1592. Pakington was referring to Footnote 3 to Chapter 7 of Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government".
Misquoted as "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." in "Life of John Stuart Mill" (1889) by W. L. Courtney, p. 147.
This seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.

Stupidity, Thinking, Personality

“One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.”

Dan Brown (1964) American author

“You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?”

Amy Tan book Saving Fish from Drowning

Source: Saving Fish from Drowning

Fish

“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

Life, War

“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

God, Faith

“That’s the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn’t it? We always have so many questions.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

People

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.”

Melissa Senate (1965) american writer

Life

“Asking questions gives you significant power.”

Greg Anderson

“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

Source: Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

For Men

“It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Pain, Sadness

“Puck laughed, and it wasn't like that weird high-pitched giggle she'd heard out of children before, the one that begged the question: why would one possibly tickle a child just to elicit that noise?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Children

“But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Source: Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

Dreams

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Dogs, Night

“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Faith, Dogs

“The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

Love

“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

First Visit to Armenia (1935)

Nature, Study, Learning

“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Attitude, Courageous, Success, Wise

“Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

Life

“At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did bear it. The question remains: how?”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

An Karl von U.

Despair

“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”

Cory Doctorow book For the Win

Source: For the Win

People, Stupidity, Thinking

“Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.”

Glen Cook book Shadows Linger

Source: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 367)

World, Game

“Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

God

“Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Lie

“Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.”

Richard Brautigan book In Watermelon Sugar

Source: In Watermelon Sugar

Thinking, Time

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner
Source: Many Moons

Funny, Cute, Valentine's Day, Wedding

“I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

The Sportswriter

“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Universe, Personality

“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”

Ann Druyan (1949) American author and producer

Learning

“Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams?”

Nancy Holder (1953) American writer

Source: Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound

Dreams

“Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Gates of Paradise

Love

“One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

“Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“Six questions respects it. Twenty questions doesn't.”

Jay Conrad Levinson (1933–2013) American business writer

Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness

“I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

People, Thinking

“How will the world change if we do not question it?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

World, Change

“Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Lie, Lying

“I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Children, People, School, Boy

“How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Thinking

“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”

Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Life, Secret, Mountain, Thinking

“Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

Way, History

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?"
"No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too."
"I'll take that as a yes," I said.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Thinking

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Section 1.10 
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is.
Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Laughter, Joy

“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”

Anthony Bourdain book Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary)
Is this one of those questions that if I don’t answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Dream Hunter

Women, Dreams

“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) English writer and printer

Attitude, People, Understanding, Sense

“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 10, Counting Sheep

“I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me:.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

People

“Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Books

“The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Imagination

“I am concentrating docilely on the question why U. S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Appearance

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Death, Men, Justice, Beauty

“Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?

V: I beg your pardon?”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.”

Patrick Carman (1966) American writer

Source: Thirteen Days to Midnight

Faith

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was impossible now, at least till night-time; it was impossible to return to that music sung by carafe-women; and so one had to become oblivious in the dreams of life.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Pt. 1, ch. 2
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Life, Women, Dreams, Music

“In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830

“You can't believe because she tells you to," I said
"No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Personality

“We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?”

Louise Penny (1958) Canadian woman writer

Source: A Rule Against Murder

“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”

Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author

Source: Letters to a Young Lawyer

God

“His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Age, World

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Personality

“Suicide is a permanent question.”

Mariel Hemingway (1961) American actress and author

Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

Suicide

“EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?”

David Hume book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Philo to Cleanthes, Part X
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
Context: And is it possible, CLEANTHES, said PHILO, that after all these reflections, and infinitely more, which might be suggested, you can still persevere in your Anthropomorphism, and assert the moral attributes of the Deity, his justice, benevolence, mercy, and rectitude, to be of the same nature with these virtues in human creatures? His power we allow is infinite: whatever he wills is executed: but neither man nor any other animal is happy: therefore he does not will their happiness. His wisdom is infinite: He is never mistaken in choosing the means to any end: But the course of Nature tends not to human or animal felicity: therefore it is not established for that purpose. Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?

Evil

“The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Oceans of Fire

Love, Personality, Perfection

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“Are we prepared to make an enemy out of the Kingdom? The question is, are you bastards prepared to make an enemy out of Fairy Tail?”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Source: By Art Koroma, from page 256 of Holy Axiom Truth Exposed... the Bible Is a Myth (2014) note: It appears President Barack Obama started this misattribution. I can find no reference to this quote on the Internet prior to his May 15, 2016 commencement address at Rutgers State University. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/15/remarks-president-commencement-address-rutgers-state-university-new

Feeling, Courage

“You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Waiting, Parting

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat (1985)

“Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

People, Way, Waiting

“Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22love+is+the+answer%22#search_anchor in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

Love, Sex, Waiting