Quotes About Doubt

Love is irrational. Nonsensical. Makes you feel things that seem wildly inappropriate when you consider the surrounding circumstances. And yet you shouldn't ever question it, shouldn't ever doubt it. You should just accept it for the gift it is.

Fear leaves you sweaty and shaky and insecure enough to question evrything you know to be true.

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.

I found out that the question was not 'am I good enough to write?', because of course I am not. The question was, 'am I able to live without writing?'. It is the only question.

La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero.

Acaso todavía hay mentes lo bastante ingenuas para pensar que las teorías sirven para ser creídas?

L'amour concentre la certitude et le doute : on est sûr d'être aimé autant qu'on en doute, non pas tour à tour, mais en une simultanéité déconcertante. Chercher à se débarrasser de ce versant dubitatif en posant mille questions à l'aimée, c'est nier la nature radicalement ambigüe de l'amour.

L'amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatura dubitativa facendo mille domande alla propria amata, significa negare la natura radicalmente ambigua dell'amore.

Put je u svakom slucaju trnovit. Vise od dvije trecine veza ne uspiju ga prijeci. Tada se javlja neprijateljstvo, nesporazum, sutnja, katkad i mrznja. Ti se neuspjesi javljaju upravo zbog sumnje koja navodi na to kako se problem ne bi ni pojavio da je to prijateljstvo bilo doista iskreno. To nije tocno. Takva je kriza neizbjezna. Cak i ako zbilja nekog obozavamo, nismo spremni na to da bude s nama.

You know perfectly well that if ever you really want to, you can come back to me," he said without the slightest trace of irony and cynicism, and left.

Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.

Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.

Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be redeemed.

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

My only weapon is the question.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.