Quote#Wisdom
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go…
Quote byAndrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd · 1825–1899
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 194..
English (original)
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.
— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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