Quotes About Doubt

To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it's just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged.

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.

I'm not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.

Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a pain that often sat like a nosebleed behind his forehead the moment he tried to make up his mind to do something.

Ich trage meine Sache vor, wenn ich auch weiss, dass sie nur ein Teil der Wahrheit ist und ich würde sie ebenso vortragen, wenn ich wüsste, dass sie falsch ist, weil gewisse Irrtümer Stationen der Wahrheit sind.

D]iese skeptische Gegenwart glaubt weder an Gott noch an die Humanität, weder an Kronen noch Sittlichkeit - oder sie glaubt an alles zusammen, was auf das gleiche hinauskommt.

At this point he quit, right in the middle of an important and promising piece of work. He now saw his colleagues partly as relentless, obsessive public prosecutors and security chiefs of logic, and partly as opium eaters, addicts of some strange pale drug that filled their world with visions of numbers and abstract relations. God help me, he thought, surely I never could have meant to spend all my life as a mathematician?

there are two of you, one who wants to write and one who doesn't. The one who wants to write has to keep fooling the one who doesn't.

For the truth is a terrible thing. You dabble your foot in it and it is nothing. But you walk a little farther and you feel it pull you like an undertow or a whirlpool. First there is the slow pull so steady and gradual you scarcely notice it, then the acceleration, then the dizzy whirl and plunge into darkness. For there is a blackness of truth, too. They say it is a terrible thing to fall into the Grace of God. I am prepared to believe that.

But he was saying, '--and so I'm not going to make any speech--' In his old voice, his own voice. Or was that his voice? Which was his true voice, which one of all the voices, you would wonder.

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him.

We're all heroes at something, and cowards at something else.

So when you're in doubt and feeling a little afraid, just do what Colonel Sanders did to his little chicken. He fried it.

Our doubts often paralyze us.

These words of doubt often get so loud that we fail to act.

Richard's backing out did not surprise me. It's called buyer's remorse

people who are filled with doubt are willing to accept a far lower return. Doubt is expensive.

Never run from what you know you need to learn. Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

when I feel afraid or doubtful of myself. For