Quotes About Doubt

You can't just hop in a car and drive to California," she said. "Yes, I can." She let out a frustrated sigh. "Do you ever have that little voice in your head that tells you something is a bad idea?

Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

Sometimes I ask myself, "Do I have the courage to do the right thing when it matters most?" And that answer, I'm afraid, is silence.

She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can't believe her, even if I could believe her.

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving. I keep living as if the sun will rise, as if I'll survive the waters of baptism, as if Jesus will indeed carry me safely across the falls.

Buried under these rationalizations is a God-given intuition that serves as a compass to find authentic love. When women begin to doubt or ignore the voice of their conscience, they become their own worst enemies. They then wonder why love seems so elusive.

College took Elizebeth's innate tendency to doubt and gave it a structure, a justification. At Wooster and Hillsdale she discovered poetry and philosophy, two methods of exploring the unknown, two scalpels for carving up fact and thought.

Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They'll say you're wasting your time.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain

This doesn't prove anything. It's just a bunch of letters that anyone could have written on paper. She'll accuse me of buying a Hungarian dictionary

One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain anymore.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Estás de broma o qué? —pregunta a su vez, mirando a Melchor con su cara inconfundible de pedrada—. Pero ¿cómo quieres que crea en un sistema político que le da el derecho de voto a un individuo como yo?

Uma pessoa nunca sabe se o que lhe dizem é verdade, nunca há a certeza de nada que não venha de nós mesmos.

Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creía que sí, a veces creía que no, y a veces decidía no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con él, o con aquel hombre semejante a él, mayor que él. Pero también ella se había hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia, era muy joven cuando se casó

Y sí, yo lo echaba enormemente de menos y me imaginaba que él a mí también. Pero lo del otro pertenece siempre a ese terreno, al de la imaginación. Uno nunca sabe a ciencia cierta, ni siquiera sabe si las declaraciones más encendidas son verdad o interpretación o convención, son sentidas o lo que el otro cree que le toca sentir y está dispuesto a decir.

M?su p?rliec?bas ir gaistošas un trauslas, pat t?s, ko uzskat?m par visstingr?kaj?m. T?pat ir ar m?su j?t?m. Mums nevajadz?tu sev uztic?ties.

Weick urges leaders to continually discredit much of what the think they know - to doubt, argue, contradict, disbelieve, counter, challenge, question, vacillate, and even act hypocritically.

A common tendency is to ask for agreement, perhaps because it's reassuring: "Does that make sense?" "Wouldn't you agree?" But asking the other person how they see it differently is more helpful. If you ask for agreement, people may be reluctant to share their doubts and reservations. They aren't sure whether you really want to hear them.

Asking for physical proof for God's existence is like asking for proof of the existence of energy. Energy is everywhere. We assume its existence because we see its effects. We can understand the sources of energy and the forms it takes. We can devise theories about how energy changes and how energy behaves, but if I wanted to obstinately doubt the existence of energy how could anyone prove its existence?