Beryl Markham Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.

  Beryl Markham

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.58, Open Road Media

• A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

  Beryl Markham

  Hands, Doubt, Maps

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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