Quotes About Doubt

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

We mustn't doubt in the darkness what God has showed us in the light.

He wondered if you were supposed to pray while naked in the shower, but figured what the hell and pressed his wet hands together.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Here is a world without joy and without hope. But it does not frighten me because I do not believe it.

Because when I saw you yesterday afternoon, you claimed you weren't sure that something was wrong with Cortland's grandfather. But if you sent a note to Sir Arthur, you must have been sure that something was wrong even before you brought Dr. Reeves there this morning." "Are you trying to evaluate your judgment or mine?" "Either or both," said Andrew with a grin.

Conviction, Nietzsche said, is a greater enemy of truth than lies.)

Certainty in faith and doubt in reason removed the means by which to reach understandings or agreements on the basis of what is reasonable, leaving force as the adjudicator.

Would Revolver have become the album toward which every superlative was hurled had it been released under the same conditions that Sgt. Pepper was? Without a doubt.

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.

Rationality will not save us.

There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.

He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

asked, his voice tight.

If the public doubts that objective journalism is possible, on what basis can journalists claim professional status?

Yeah, church is way better when you're not mad at God," Jimmy said. "And it gets even better when you no longer believe he's mad at you.

No doubt the world's shamans have run the gamut from true believer to calculating fraud, and no doubt many true beliefs have been peppered by doubt. But so it is in other spiritual traditions, too. There are deeply religious Christian ministers who urge the congregation to pray for the ill even though they personally doubt that God uses opinion polls to decide who lives and who dies.

Los alumnos de Almafitano aprendieron...] Que la principal enseñanza de la literatura era la valentía, una valentía rara, como un pozo de piedra en medio de un paisaje lacustre, una valentía semejante a un torbellino y a un espejo. Que no era más cómodo leer que escribir. Que leyendo se aprendía a dudar y a recordar. Que la memoria era el amor.

I began to tremble and he noticed. Why do I have to like the worst ones? I thought, why do I have to be attracted to the most brooding, least cultured, most desperate ones? It's a question I ask myself twice a year. I still haven't found an answer.

I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg.

I too believe in the intrinsic goodness of human beings, but it means nothing.

No podía creer que fuera de noche todavía, que esa incandescencia fuera la noche. Daba lo mismo cerrar los ojos o mantenerlos abiertos.

Si esa mujer me hubiera dicho que un pedazo de su caca envuelta en una bolsa de la compra era un poema yo le hubiera creído.