Quotes About Doubt

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.

Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.