I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up.
"What do I have to do?" he says.
"Nothing," I say. "They're for you."
"Are they poisoned?" he says.
"No," I say.
"Eat one," he says.
So I do.
"Probably the others are poisoned," he says. "Eat a fraction of each."
I eat a corner off each biscuit. He looks at the reminders suspiciously, then sniffs them.
"I'm not sure it's worth it," he says. "How I wish you'd never come. Perhaps you've left the poison off of just those corners."
I begin to realize I'll doubt whatever information he gives me.
"Lick the entire biscuit," he says. "Then give them to me."
So I lick each biscuit.
"Both sides," he says.
I lick both sides of each biscuit. I give him the wet biscuits and he cracks them open and sniffs them. Then he puts them in his pocket.
"What do you want?" he says. "Now that you've failed to poison me to death.
Stichwörter: humor doubt absurd paranoia poisoning
Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.
The Band PerryThe most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.
Dannika DarkStichwörter: motivational success doubt confidence romance language try motivation uncertainty abilities english damaged ability series if urban-fantasy pnr succeed might mageri damaging
If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,
SuskindStichwörter: certainty doubt humility
Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded were its eyes - Mr. Thornton, instead of being shocked, seemed to have through that very stage of thought himself, and could suggest where the exact ray of light was to be found, which should make the dark places plain. Man of action as he was, busy in the world's great battle, there was a deeper religion binding him to God in his heart, in spite of his strong willfulness, through all his mistakes, than Mr. Hale ever dreamed.
Elizabeth GaskellStichwörter: doubt uncertainty men-of-action
It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise.
Iain M. BanksStichwörter: doubt reality scepticism virtual-reality
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: doubt religion faith
How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?
MetallicaStichwörter: doubt lost despair nowhere
Doubtful heart weakens mind.
Toba BetaStichwörter: doubt mind heart weak
In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.
Kenneth de GuzmanStichwörter: doubt war death fighting-for
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