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Quotes About Doubt

Showing the light to birds of the night is like hiding it from them, because it blinds them and becomes for them more obscure than darkness.
~ Éliphas Lévi
To think is to say no.
~ Émile Auguste Chartier
99 percent secure is 100 percent insecure.
~ Aamir Lakhani
We called them false angels. You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn't die. That is when I began to believe. God was real, and he hated us.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
~ Aaron Sorkin
It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.
~ Aaron Starmer
Sometimes I don't feel like writing at all...It seems so selfish, writing.
~ Aaron Starmer
If there was no way into God, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.
~ Aaron Weiss
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
~ Abbe Pierre
It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.
~ Abby Mann
In the restaurant of life, the false Salafi can do no more than eat the menu.
~ Abdal Hakim Murad
the curse of Allah is on those without Faith.
~ Abdullah Yusuf Ali
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
~ Abraham Verghese
But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.
~ Abraham Verghese
I don't know how to hold this truth, so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down in case, later, no one believes me.
~ Ada Limón
I'm afraid that I won't do the right thing in the face of disaster. Or, I'm afraid I will be stupidly brave.
~ Ada Limón
Darling Cockroaches of the Highest Order, hard underthings of hard underworlds, I am utterly suspicious of advice.
~ Ada Limón
we don't know he's dead do we? Have we seen a body? Has anyone told us he's dead?" I didn't say anything," he protested. Then don't look at me like I'm crazy. If I'm wrong,let me be wrong , let me be crazy,
~ Adam Bagdasarian