Quotes About Doubt

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Certainty ends inquiry.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.