Quotes About Doubt

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

And therefore, according as any one is more anxious in demanding a reason, by so much will he be the firmer in preserving his faith.9

The uncertainty of our senses makes uncertain all that they produce:

Most courtroom movies feel it necessary to end with a clear-cut verdict. But 12 Angry Men never states whether the defendant is innocent or guilty. It is about whether the jury has a reasonable doubt about his guilt.

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative', is asking you not to believe him. So don't.

There are so many plans, and so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

P.S. I still dunno if it's art. Go to Hell yourself.

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

I came to pray; mocking, I stay.

Was that a dark figure ducking behind a windmill tree? Or only the dance of shadows in my shadow-shifting eyes?

The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

The price of being an Amberite, I suppose, is that you cannot even trust yourself.

Freud to his fiancée: The only thing that makes me suffer is being in a situation where it is impossible for me to prove my love to you Gide: Everything in her behaviour seemed to say: Since he no longer loves me, nothing matters to me. Now, I still loved her, and in fact I had never loved her so much; but it was no longer possible for me to prove it to her. That was much the worst thing of all

Il m'importe peu de savoir si Dieu existe ou non ; mais ce que je sais et que je saurai jusqu'au bout, c'est qu'il n'aurait pas dû créer en même temps l'amour et la mort. Le Neutre, c'est ce Non irréductible : un Non comme suspendu devant les endurcissements de la foi et de la certitude et incorruptible par l'une et par l'autre.

Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, "Are these the men with whom I am to defend America?

When someone asked if he had ever doubted the North's final victory, he shot back, "Never for a moment." He quoted Seward, saying "that there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency, and he agreed with Mr. Seward in this view.

Emergencies seemed to fortify his confidence even as they introduced doubt or terror in others.

As it turned out, Junior resigned from the bank board the following year, finding some of its practices questionable.

Perhaps he did not think Junior could live with the moral ambiguities of a fortune extracted by dubious methods.

I doubt if Mr. Rockefeller's attention could be attracted.

His insecurities only worsened as he had more to lose.