Quotes About Doubt

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any–lifted from the no of all nothing–human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

giving to steal and cruel kind, a heart to fear, to doubt a mind, to differ a disease of same, conform the pinnacle of am though dull were all we taste as bright, bitter all utterly things sweet, maggoty minus and dumb death all we inherit, all bequeath

Fear arises, and conflict within and without becomes the norm.

If you found yourself in paradise, it wouldn't be long before your mind would say "yes, but. . . .

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

Why would anyone entertain Satan's questions about God's goodness when everything is good? But a few bumps in the road, and our knowledge of God seems fragile, and that's what Satan is counting on.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact - we can escape neither.

And could she love where she feared?

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.

But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time—I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, still we hesitate to admit the validity of our newfound convictions.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand

Why, I never did believe it

He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power. Then he'll be hung, said the Chief, rising. I doubt it, said the other, people with lots of money seldom get hung. You only get hung for wanting money.

The wise are doubtful,' Socrates returned, 'and I should not be singular if I too doubted.

What is there, Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, persuades this man still that my words do not mean what they seem to mean in sane men's ears?

The habit of questioning everything can be dangerous, for sooner or later it will surely bring a man into head-on collision with the unquestionable, and he will not be able in conscience to draw aside.

Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance; can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!