Quotes About Doubt

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

I didn't make music until I was about 18. I'd been playing my whole life, but I wasn't putting it out because I didn't feel like people would take it seriously. I thought people would be like, 'It's just like sad girl music - it's like Taylor Swift.'

When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Me, a teacher? No way!

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.

Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.

If you've got to second-guess talking to a teammate, what you have will never work.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?

Why was everyone suddenly challenging something that I'd held as absolute truth my entire life?

He's getting married." "That means nothing. If it did, guys wouldn't catch chlamydia at their bachelor parties." "But

What was the correct procedure here? Was he supposed to kiss me? Was I supposed to let him? Had that been the real price of my salad?

You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told him. "I believe in what I can do for myself.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

And really, what is trust other than faith in a clever disguise?

But I'm a fucking hypocrite; because when things get bad enough, I pray for help. And tonight, things are bad.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

Not everything is as it seems.

I do not believe in organized religion, herbal remedies, yoga, Reiki, kabbalah, deep massage, slow food, or chicken soup for the soul. The nostrums of Deepak Chopra and Barbara De Angelis cannot rescue people like me. I believe in crazyass passion.

even if they could remember, which I doubt. Once they're sober we'll do

The difference between a hermeneutics of restoration and a hermeneutics of suspicion, we might say, lies in the difference between unveiling and unmasking. Here