Quotes About Doubt

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Are you Lewis Carroll? Redd asked him.

Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

What have we here—jinn or human?

Are you a believer or just playing safe?

Religion suppresses curiosity.

Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self satisfied.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.

But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.

The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have little to do with it.

Desire brings the participants together. Data sets the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.