Quotes About Doubt

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? No, I will not sign.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.

Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark! Rather I prize the doubt Low kinds exist without, Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark. Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast; Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white -- we call it black.

Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?

You call for faith:I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say,If faith o'ercomes doubt.

Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift,That I doubt his own love can compete with it?Here, the parts shift?

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Overall, one gets the impression of a commander who was unsure of himself and consequently inconsistent. In other words, just about the worst kind of commander imaginable, although one blessed with uncanny luck.