Quotes About Doubt

I knew better than to put any confidence in the assurances of good-looking guys.

Evie." Grayson gave her a look, the kind of Grayson Hawthorne look that burned itself into your memory because it said everything he wouldn't. "It's not him.

If it had been me in the woods, if I'd been the one to go with Briggs, if I'd been the one you saw at the exact second . . . would it have been me? He didn't finish the question and I didn't answer it

No one is going to believe you chickened out of anything," he said. From the way he'd phrased that, you would have thought I was fearless.

I was in bed, thinking about everything Max had said, wondering if I was fundamentally selfish or needy person, when I heard a sound like scratching in the wall.

Do you trust me?" I was standing in a phone-lit passageway, close enough to feel his body's heat on mine. "Absolutely not." "Good." He reached out, grabbed my hand, and pulled me close. "Hold on.

But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.

we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope

Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.

The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.

Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras's atheism held that society must "denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.

If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.

Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.

I'm not ready." These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything.

Sometimes feel true to us even if they are not.

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me?

So what scares you most? With us?" I give this a little thought. "That you'll be really into me one day and the next day you won't be, and I won't see it coming. Because apparently feelings can change overnight. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm too much. Or maybe I'm not enough.

Sometimes things feel true to us even if they're not

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

And I think: Love complicates everything. It makes you hurt and it makes you doubt and it makes you wish you didn't love. It makes you want to be watchful so that nothing bad or surprising ever happens, it makes you never want to love anyone again because they'll only hurt you too.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.

After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.