Quotes About Doubt

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

I am very suspicious of people.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

I'm always a bit suspicious of the sort of person who argues by saying 'What would Jesus have said?' They usually mean that they are quite sure Jesus would have agreed with them.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.