Quotes About Doubt

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

Cuando es del todo imposible saber la verdad, supongo que entonces tenemos la libertad de decidir qué lo es.

é difícil pormos em dúvida aquilo que sabemos desde a infância, tardamos em desconfiar disso.

Passara anos a duvidar se eu estava morto e a desejar que estivesse vivo, e o seu desejo vira-se recompensado. Agora, pelo contrário, segundo me parecia, não queria saber se eu permanecia na terra ou se saía disparado dela. Tinha sido em vida, aquando do meu regresso, que deixara de existir. Não se prescinde de um fantasma, pois nunca está cumprido; de um marido desnecessário, derrotado, ensimesmado e sombrio, sim.

Li há pouco dois velhos versos de Yeats que me pareceram verdadeiros, na medida relativa em que qualquer afirmação o pode ser: "Falta aos melhores toda a convicção, enquanto os piores estão cheios de uma intensidade apaixonada.

Es lo malo de dejar que la gente hable y se explique y por eso trata de impedirse tantas veces, para conservar las certezas y no dar cabida a las dudas, es decir, a la mentira. O es decir, a la verdad.

Las personas interesantes se distinguen por las preguntas que hacen y las dudas que albergan, mientras que cualquier necio puede estar seguro de todo y ofrecer respuestas que nadie le pide.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

Así son las cosas, nos pasamos toda la vida buscando algo y cuando por fin lo tenemos al alcance de la mano, nos asaltan las dudas y no sabemos qué hacer.

Learning and knowledge make people think, and doubt and questioning are difficult companions for faith to have.

Because they are so intimidated and worried about making mistakes, they simply don't do it.

this thing was going to work—if Janet had

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

For me, religion comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.