Quotes About Doubt

I'd lost faith in anyone giving me money- and then that's when I got the money.

That wasn't gorilla was it?

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

The point is this: Panic erodes your basic trust in your body. Panic wins control over you by convincing you to doubt your body's natural unconscious monitoring system. Panic says, "Keep watching, keep listening, keep monitoring." These are the destructive messages of panic. If you are constantly on guard over your body's sensations, you will need to start thinking about your body in a new way.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

Uncertainty is the very essence of romance.

We are always afraid of the unknown.

no man is as offended at doubt as is the habitual liar who has for once told the truth.

Having God is having someone to rage against," she said over coffee. "Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?

true faith never comes without anguish.

Sometimes I really hate being right.

Belief is the enemy of a storyteller

The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

An idea that sounds definite when aired as an opinion may not always appear so certain when applied to human beings.

In its swelling pride The bubble doubts the truth of the sea And laughs and bursts into emptiness

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask

What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in every part of you, even as it fells your enemies and crowns you the winner.

I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

It was with her, after all, that his identity had been forged: if she no longer recognised him, then who was he?

Hearing the dreadful things he had said about me, it seemed to me there was nothing stable, no actual truth in all the universe, save the immutable one, that nothing exists except what one creates for oneself.