Doubt Quote by Elton Trueblood

“At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.”

— Jack London

“No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.”

— Sam Harris

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds…

— Edith Pargeter

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better.…

— Margaret Atwood

“And what hurts him most is the gleam of peace he'd had: he would rather imagine his wife tortured in a secret cell than…

— Lauren Groff

“The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.”

— Yann Martel

“He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.”

— St. Francis de Sales

“...and also with sufficient good judgment to appreciate that while he might enjoy the contemplation of his superiority to the masses, there was little…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Yet in tearing us apart he somehow held us together. In obstructing, he strengthened us. In criticizing, he informed. In his rich, aromatic heresy,…

— E.B. White

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton