Quotes About Doubt

What one believes does not, therefore, have to be proved, and a proposition can be ever so incontrovertibly proven without on that account being believed.

Faith is not the work of reason, and therefore cannot succumb to its attack, because faith arises just as little from reason as tasting and seeing do.

Truth would not let herself be approached too closely by highwaymen; she wore one garment on top of another so that one doubted being able to find her body. How frightening if they had their way and saw that frightful ghost, the truth, before them.

They wanted easy answers to complex fears.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Niemand weiß eine Medaille am Rand anzufassen

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

To have your every wish, desire, Wake, regard the glorious light! What holds you bound is a mild power, Sleep's a shell, break out of it! Up, no lagging, boldly does it; Though the crowd doubts and delays, All's possible to a brave spirit 4830 Who sees, and seeing's quick to seize.

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.