Quotes About Doubt

movie Twelve Angry Men.

One does not know yet whether Christ was God or the Devil - Buddha is more reassuring.

There's a difference between religion and faith, Chandi said, Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.

You don't believe in miracles. Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

I've noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

Have you ever stood still while someone lied to you? If so, you know the sickening feeling. Your brain wants to make the situation less disturbing, and oh, how you want to convince yourself the liar is telling the truth.

now. "Indeed," Nell agreed. "There can be no doubt that he and Mrs. Fitzherbert both love her dearly. It would be cruel to

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know, then, that she is capricious for she imposeth conditions that man cannot fulfill, and delinquency is punished by desertion. She cometh only when unsought, and will not be questioned. One manifestation of curiosity, one sign of doubt, one expression of misgiving, and she is away!

Heaven is a prophecy uttered by the lips of despair, but Hell is an inference from analogy.

I fought; I fought for the immortal soul the preachers had taught me to believe in. I do not know whether I ever believed in it—I had never seen God, and He had never spoken to me—but I fought for it anyway, and I fought for Alexander.

Could I, in truth, no longer rely upon the testimony of my senses? A thousand half-formed apprehensions flashed across me in a moment.

The world," he said, "grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. The Phantom Coach

Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

A cynic might observe that the scriptures can be used to support both sides of every argument.

Enough to make a man believe in God,' said Temple. 'And that He's somewhere else.

Threats for tomorrow don't cut very deep when today is so damn threatening.

He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.

Years, back, when they first made him a sergeant, he'd imagined the officers much have all the answers. When he was given his commission, he'd imagined the generals must have all the answers. When King Orso made him a general, he'd imagined the Closed counsel bust have all the answers. Now, as a lord marshal, he finally knew it for an absolute fact. No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any.

My suspicions grow with every passing moment. They are never laid to rest. They only change shape.