Quotes About Doubt

La gente altera costruisce soltanto le mura esterne del castello, dietro alle quali cerca di nascondere i suoi dubbi e le sue paure.

Religia trebuie s? r?mân? o supap? pentru acei oameni care îÈ™i spun: "Nu sunt aÈ™a cum aÈ™ vrea s? fiu." În niciun caz, ea nu trebuie s? se afunde în marasmul mulÈ›umirii de sine.

What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. —THE ZENSUNNI WHIP

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

Well now, whose feint am I?

Kendi ölümlülüÄŸünden ÅŸüphelenmek, dehÅŸetin baÅŸlang?c?n? bilmektir; ölümlü olduÄŸunu reddedilemez bir ÅŸekilde öÄŸrenmek, dehÅŸetin sonunu bilmektir.

The unknown brings its own worries,' he said.

L'ironia spesso nasconde l'incapacità di andare oltre le proprie convinzioni.

Bridey drags on her Woodbine, drinks her tea and declares that God is good. Mam says she's sure God is good for someone somewhere but He hasn't been seen lately in the lanes of Limerick. Bridey laughs. Oh, Angela, you could go to hell for that, and Mam says, Aren't I there already, Bridey?

but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

Philosophy couldn't emancipate the mind, but technology just might. Google has set out to succeed where Descartes failed, except that it has jettisoned all the philosophical questions that rattled around in his head. Where Descartes emphasized skepticism and doubt, Google is never plagued by second-guessing. It has turned the liberation of the brain into an engineering challenge—an exercise that often fails to ask basic questions about the human implications of the project.

First impressions are always unreliable.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, and at the same time that indestructible something as well as his trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.