Quotes About Doubt

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Sometimes it feels as though one is surely committing spiritual suicide. It feels that all that is best in one's life is being eroded and lost. But still go on. This is faith.

The doubt sensation, also called the yearning sensation, the longing sensation, allows the mind to become more and more aroused without its resting on anything, to the point where pure awareness without content, reflection or desire can spring forth in a burst of light, an explosion of pure being.

But I have no sense of humor and not enough courage to be cynical.

Then, his odd collie sense had told him that for some reason this staggering and hiccuping creature was not the master whom he knew and loved. This man was strangely different from the Link Ferris whom Chum knew. Puzzled, the dog had halted and had stood irresolute.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Der unnatürliche Zustand, daß der Mensch nicht an eine von ihm selber erkannte Wahrheit glaubt, dauert an und wirkt sich aus. Die Stadt der Wahrheit kann nicht auf dem Sumpfboden des Skeptizismus erbaut werden.

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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

Nobody believes anything that's put in a poem.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

qué esperar?, ¿cuándo?, ¿hasta dónde?, ¿por qué?, ¿para qué? Su interior se deshacía paulatinamente como un grifo mal construido. Algo goteaba horrorosas partículas de dolor. Algo, algo.

Elevo los brazos y caigo en el vacío. ¿Qué hacer? ¿Qué vivir? ¿Cuánto? ¿Cómo? ¿Dónde? Y… ¿por qué?

Hace un momento tenía la preocupación de que no le querías bastante y ahora casi me da miedo verte quererle tanto

The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth.

Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.