Quotes About Doubt

You do not love Him at all? he asked. I am afraid of Him in the night sometimes.

You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.

Listen, Jake, he said, are you really a Catholic? Technically. What does that mean? I don't know.

Who knows? Since we do not have God here any more, neither His Son nor the Holy Ghost, who forgives? I do not know.

Who's she?" Georgette turned to me. "Do I have to talk to her?

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.

Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.

Nagyon kézre állt, és azóta is nagyon vonzónak tartom Eco gondolkodásának a módját: a lehetÅ' legtöbb tudással a kétely állapotában lenni.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days. —Paulo Coelho, Adultery

If someone asks me if I believe in God, I shake my head like I couldn't give a shit, but the truth is, I do. I just don't know what to do about it.

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?

He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope

Je préfère la vie à la mort, exister à ne pas exister, car je ne suis pas sûr d'être une fois que je n'existerai plus

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

IubiÈ›i cititori...fiecare dintre voi are dreptate, numai ceilalÈ›i greÈ™esc. Totdeauna. Cu o condiÈ›ie: nici unul dintre voi s? nu-È™i închipuie c? e celalalt. Nu v? încredeÈ›i în afirmaÈ›iile altora. RepuneÈ›i totul în discuÈ›ie. FiÈ›i voi înÈ™iv?. Nu ascultaÈ›i nici un sfat: cu excepÈ›ia acestuia.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

It makes it so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion, knowing everyone is spying on me, and none of you believe in me, or trust me.

Our fears are informed by history and economics, by social power and stigma, by myths and nightmares. And as with other strongly held beliefs, our fears are dear to us. When we encounter information that contradicts our beliefs, as Slovic found in one of his studies, we tend to doubt the information, not ourselves.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.