Quotes About Doubt

A beginning of an unfinished conversation that I didn't have the guts to take control of.

faith that's primarily intellectual—that is, a matter of mastering information—is deceptively fragile.

Many Christians will see through these lies today but will choose not to speak up. Their silence will not save them and will instead corrode them, according to Mi?osz.

Descartes defendía que el mejor método consistía en comenzar aceptando como verdaderas únicamente aquellas ideas que quedaban con claridad fuera de dudas. Ni la autoridad, ni tan siquiera nuestros propios sentidos deben hacernos aceptar una supuesta verdad. Solo son ciertas las cosas de las que podemos estar seguros. Y el primer principio de este método es «pienso, luego existo».

The 1960s media theorist Marshall McLuhan, a practicing Christian, once said that everyone he knew who lost his faith began by ceasing to pray.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.

A Lesson Nasrudin was teaching his son life lessons. "Never give anybody anything immediately," he said. "Wait until at least a couple of days have gone by." "But why?" his son inquired. "Because," Nasrudin responded, "people appreciate receiving something much more if they first have to doubt whether or not they will actually get it!

The first consideration I have on the subject of the senses is that I doubt that man is provided with all the natural senses.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in mathematics.

da la impresión de que se ha inventado una realidad falsa y no sabemos si realmente cree en ella o sólo lo pretende.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

They'd slept together three times, the second time to see whether the first time was just because they'd been too drunk, and the third time to see if being sober the second time had put too much pressure on them.

Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest...

it was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least sure the ground would stay still.

Already, he was not entirely Trelkovsky any more. But what was Trelkovsky? How could he learn the answer to that? He had to discover himself, so that he could be sure he would not wander from the right path. But how?

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

When people feel threatened and anxious they become more rigid, and when in doubt they tend to become dogmatic; and then they lose their own vitality. They use the remnants of traditional values to build a protective encasement and then shrink behind it; or they make an outright panicky retreat into the past. But

Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing "about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.

People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one are dangerous. Such conviction is the essence not only of dogmatism, but of its more destructive cousin, fanaticism. It blocks off the user from learning new truth, and it is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. The person then has to double his or her protests in order to quiet not only the opposition but his or her own unconscious doubts as well.