Quotes About Doubt

There is no faith in the smile of the rose

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

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book. Sometimes I guess it's best just to forget there's an audience and just write like no one will ever read it at all.

Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

Quando (como notavelmente formulado por Erich Fromm) "cada indivíduo deve ir em frente e tentar sua sorte", quando "ele tem que nadar ou afundar" — "a busca compulsiva da certeza" se instala, começa a desesperada busca por "soluções" capazes de "eliminar a consciência da dúvida" — o que quer que prometa "assumir a responsabilidade pela 'certeza'" é bem-vindo.5

Because the intimacy is extended to Sontag's reader, the love story becomes an implicit ménage à trois. Each essay enacts the effort — the dialectic of struggle, doubt, ecstasy and letdown — to know another writer, and to make you know him, too. And, more deeply though also more discreetly, to know her.

It was because I craved the drama of her ambivalence, the tenacity of her enthusiasm, the sting of her doubt. I read those books because I needed to be with her. Is it too much to say that I was in love with her? Who was she, anyway?

She likes to think this is a real memory, but she doesn't know that she isn't making it up.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

The thing about quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

Always be wary of quotes on the internet.

Don't believe everything you see on the internet

Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from—will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.

And trust dies from ifs and buts