Quotes About Doubt

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

I'm a creative man so my fears are greater than most.

think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.

No one marries expecting it to fail. And even when it's good, who knows how long it's going to last?

It's because the very core of their identity is called into question. Whether they're guilty or not makes almost no difference. That's just the way we're wired.

If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.

Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?

I come to you as a man selling air, And you will think twice at the offer and price, And you will argue that nothing is there, Although we know that it is - everywhere. I bring a formula largely untold, - Of forces mixed with between and betwixt. And only seen when allowed to unfold. And better felt when the body is cold. I have a map to the home of the soul, Beyond the mind is a golden find, - The paradox is a guide to the goal, - Though doubt is sacred, each man is the Whole.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

I wouldn't kill your pony. I'd like to believe it, anyway. I'd like to believe I wouldn't drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn't come up.

Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it— living in the worst parts, ruining myself.

and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy

He's next to you, right next to you in fact, so close, or . . . he isn't.

The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.

Don't bother. You never mean it anyway, not really

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.

?i ce te faci dac? totu?i exista Dumnezeu: spune-mi, ce te faci dac? totu?i este adev?rat ca El exista? (Levi Yitzhak)

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength. The fact that you can be an atheist when everything goes well does not prove the truth of atheism. It does not hold up in moments of great crisis." I

Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.

He said there were two kinds of Christians: those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments.