Quotes About Doubt

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.