Quotes About Doubt

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

No atheism simply falls from heaven.

when thinking becomes involved with faith, it will also understand that God cannot be thought without faith. That is the initial point from which evangelical theology proceeds.

And before it was over, Tracy did get the answers he wanted, and a few he didn't. But it seemed to him that was just the nature of answers.

From the day I met you, I've known that you are a glass-half-empty-and-maybe-poisonous guy.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]

On one level, it is the interregnum surrounded by the ghosts of the dying moment, and on another, the moment that is desperately trying to be born with a lie wrapped around its neck.

What do you do when you have lost faith in the place you call home? That wasn't quite the right way to put it: I never really had faith in the United States in the strongest sense of the word.

Are you sure? You have to be sure. I'm not saying that to cover myself, or to put the responsibility on your shoulders. It's my responsibility as much as yours. And I know that in a way no one can be sure about anything like this. I just don't know if this is the right thing, and you have to help me.

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

way, and I could see how her timorousness

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal — and soon they'll forget my number.

What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.

He never has seen Seattle; he says he's crazy to; he says he doesn't believe there is any such place or any state called Washington that has a town named Walla Walla.

Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

Algo del escéptico que carga bajo la piel le dice que prolongar algo no es sinónimo de salvarlo

Tenía los ojos fijos adelante, sin mirar a nadie ni nada en particular, como quien busca respuestas dentro de sí mismo. Por fin habló, aunque fue breve: "Cagamos", declaró, y bajó la mirada.