Quotes About Doubt

The sweeping message of the Bible is not a promise that those who believe and do good will not suffer. Instead the Bible is largely a book about people who refused to let go of their faith in the face of suffering.

Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism.

The child, the psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott writes, can 'use doubt about food to hide doubt about love'; doubt about love is doubt about resources.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

how much of what seemed known and well established is, in fact, unknown and steeped in ambiguity.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

Doubt is the cornerstone of science. It gives you a sure footing from which to build an argument based on data.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

I'm at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn't started.

There is the great and glorious fact, that God has indeed spoken; that He who made the heart has had first entrance to it; that He has spoken first; that, as in a palimpsest, deep, deep below all the writing of doubt and unbelief is the writing of God, and shall remain there, either in an eternity of blessedness or anguish. When

Did I want meat or fish for dinner? I couldn't decide. Hair up or down? Either. Would I prefer to walk or bike? Neither. I wanted to sleep. It felt as if in making any inconsequential decision, I might choose wrongly and forever close a door; there would go my other life.

Leventhal's last quote is the one that rolled around in my head during the hour-long drive home: "Confidence," he said, "is what you have before you understand the problem.

I do not know who I was when I did those things or who I said I was or whether I willed to feel what I had read about or who in fact was there with me or whether I knew, even then that there was doubt about these things

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.