Quotes About Doubt

I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.

I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.

No volveré a creer nunca en lo que dicen, lo que piensan. De los hombres, y de ellos sólo, es de quien hay que tener miedo, siempre.

Truth is inedible. Nowadays

Work?" Sixtus asked.

faith in that which is seen and unseen.

When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it?

I can never make up my mind about anything myself - I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decided to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.

The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

303. I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am.—Yes: one can make the decision to say I believe he is in pain instead of He is in pain. But that is all.——What looks like an explanation here, or like a statement about a mental process, is in truth an exchange of one expression for another which, while we are doing philosophy, seems the more appropriate one. Just try—in a real case—to doubt someone else's fear or pain.

At the foundation of well-founded belief lies belief that is not founded.

Das Spiel des Zweifelns selbst setzt schon die Gewißheit voraus.

Tem de admitir-se que é verdade que saber qualquer coisa não implica pensar nisso - mas alguém que saiba de alguma coisa não tem de ser capaz de duvidar dela? E duvidar significa pensar.

It's a well-known fact that unhappy people often become superstitious, and though they may mock the hopeful credulity of others, their own superstition at times inspires the same hopes in them...

The manager: Do you understand? Leading Man: I'm hanged if I do. The Manager: Neither do I. But let's get on with it. It's sure to be a glorious failure anyway.

Gli uomini hanno in sé un superfluo, che di continuo inutilmente li tormenta, non facendoli paghi di nessuna condizione e sempre lasciandoli incerti del loro destino.

Who was I? Was I, I?

Even Ignatius Loyola wavered. That dark night of the soul, man. No one's immune. It would all be meaningless if you didn't wonder and doubt. That's what makes it real. That's what makes us people. God could have sent angels to flutter around like fairies, delivering rum punch and manna all day on a cosmic cruise ship. But what would that avail us?

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Todo homem é a soma não das suas decisões, mas das suas hesitações, ou do que, pensando melhor, decidiu não fazer.