Quotes About Doubt

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

Feiten zijn volgens mij vaak de ergste vijanden van de waarheid.

Quiero decir que le plantearé unas cuantas preguntas. Preguntas y nada más que preguntas.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.

I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

It is just possible I will say I stayed the night. And who is there that can say that I did not?

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.

When you are told, It was meant to be, ask, Who meant it? What does it really mean? Is someone trying to make you accept an undesirable situation or one in which you have doubts? When you are told, Shit happens, remember that plenty of other things happen as well, such as generosity, forgiveness, ambiguity, and uncertainty. When you are told, It's simply fate, ask yourself, What is simple about it? What are the alternatives of fate? What is fate's opposite?

bad, how likely is it to come

You want to know what the real problem is? You use Elza as a scapegoat for all your insecurities. You've made her a bigger deal in your life than she ever was in mine. You never even knew her, but you project every doubt about yourself onto her... [Said Simon to Olivia]

Every Sunday, the Jesus Worshippers asked me, Do you believe? I had to say not yet. I wanted to say yes to be polite. But then I would have been lying, and when I died maybe they would come after me and make me pay two kinds of penalty to the foreign devil, one for not believing, another for pretending that I did.

Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe.

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well.

you showed me who I truly am. You did not remove my doubts. You forced me to see how I waver.