Quotes About Doubt

Whether it's anger, panic, doubt, tension, nervousness or pressure…you can't let your emotions throw you! That's the thing you've really gotta learn…to look only at the stones. You can do this through selfobservation and training. It doesn't matter what your general nature is like, you can acquire the skill to overcome distraction.

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.

It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.

Voltaire said about God that 'there is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night'.

Then what will happen tomorrow? Nobody knows.

there are so many contradictory accounts that it is hard to know what to believe.

Humans should always retain the freedom to doubt, to check again, to hear a second opinion, to try a different path.

life sciences doubt the existence of soul not just due to lack of evidence, but rather because the very idea of soul contradicts the most fundamental principles of evolution. This

To satisfy both optimists and pessimists, we may conclude by saying that we are on the threshold of both heaven and hell, moving nervously between the gateway of the one and the anteroom of the other. History has still not decided where we will end up, and a string of coincidences might yet send us rolling in either direction.

A priest is not somebody who knows how to perform the rain dance and end the drought. A priest is somebody who knows how to justify why the rain dance failed, and why we must keep believing in our god even though he seems deaf to all our prayers.

The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more effectively than ever before, but who can hardly pay attention, dream or doubt. For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.

is there anything more dangerous than a god who doesn't know what he wants?

The Hindu epic the Bhagavad Gita relates how in the midst of a murderous civil war, the great warrior prince Arjuna is consumed with doubt. Seeing his friends and relatives in the opposing army, he hesitates over whether to fight and kill them. He begins to wonder what good and evil are, who decided it, and what the purpose of human life is.

Some become anxious that their partner will leave; others feel that they have settled cheaply, and could have found someone better. And we all know people who manage to do both.

truth is a poor test for knowledge. The

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

Parc? era vorba s? nu-?i mai pui întreb?ri, b?iatule cu p?rul ciufulit? — N-a? fi om, dac? nu mi-a? pune întreb?ri...

No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

More spooky and supernatural. Even though all the Egyptians were positive that somebody was fooling and had somehow managed to write the answer to Ken's question, there are times when being positive isn't quite enough." - Ken

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

we can tell our hearts exactly what to believe, but the cheeky little bastards won't listen to anyone but themselves

The worst enemies of success are fear and doubt.