Quotes About Doubt

People are no damn good.

There are no athiests in foxholes.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

So that almost a doubt within me springs   Of Providence, such emptiness at length   Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God!   I measure back the steps which I have trod

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand - why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

Descartes himself, as one will recall, experienced great difficulty in overcoming his celebrated doubts, and was able to do so only by way of a tortuous argument which few today would find convincing. Is it not strange that tough-minded scientists should have so readily, and for so long, espoused a rationalist doctrine which calls in question the very possibility of empirical knowledge?

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.

To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition.