
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
Les doutes sont fâcheux plus que toute autre chose.
Act III, sc. v
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Les doutes sont fâcheux plus que toute autre chose.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Responding to an assertion that his support for a ban on nuclear testing would probably cost him votes, as quoted in As We Knew Adlai : The Stevenson Story by Twenty-two Friends (1966) by Edward P. Doyle, p. 185
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
“Fear (in times of doubt the worst of prophets) revolves many things.”
Plurima versat,
pessimus in dubiis augur, timor.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 5