Quotes About Doubt

When we look deeply into our fears, we see that, at base, every fear is a fear of not having control

I find myself thinking, "I'm not so sure this is a great idea." I find myself saying, "Great.

When in doubt, follow the truth. The path is often well-illuminated and it usually leads me in the right direction.

there are no atheists in a fox hole. Your

As he himself expressed it, his was the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths—the greatest in his belief in God and everyday miracles, the least in his acceptance of any church's creeds.

His expressions of psychological depression in his notebooks (such as "Every thing I have done seems to me blank and suspicious") doubtless lay behind brooding lines like these: The doubts of the daytime and the doubts of the nighttime.… the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so.… Or is it all flashes and specks?

If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

Of course I still want to believe him. I don't think it's simply that I am gullible, but I cannot fathom the implications of his behavior. When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.

Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they've received. They need no religion, but they think they do, because religion has convinced them of it.

Atheists seek truth; theists ignore it.

The stuff in religion that you hate has no less of a basis in the source material than the stuff in religion you love.

The Gremlin is the doubting voice inside your head that's always carping, always telling you that you're not doing things well enough, or that you should be doing something else

Paranoia—it seemed—could metastasize even easier than cancer.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

One of the most trying experiences an individual can go through is the period of doubt, of soul-searching, to determine whether to fight the battle or fly from it," Nixon wrote in Six Crises. "It is in such a period that almost unbearable tensions build up, tensions that can be relieved only by taking action, one way or the other. And significantly, it is this period of crisis conduct that separates the leaders from the followers.

They didn't believe me," I exclaimed when I saw Gary. "I told the truth, but they didn't want to hear!

I knew I would never be able to explain myself in the language of faith, a tongue I was still fumbling with.

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

Just to check she's not going out." "Going

Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith. It

May your wonder always exceed your certainty.

The zombie looks like a man, walks like a man, eats and otherwise functions fully, yet is devoid of the spark. It represents the nagging doubt that lays deep in the heart of even the most zealous believer: behind all of your pretty songs and stained glass, this is what you really are. Shambling meat. Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.