Quotes About Doubt

Because there was something to be said for going through life in a fog. In the fog, you couldn't see the monsters coming.

No military state, no civil war in the streets. Just the erosion of any kind of certainty. Everyone unsure. Making up his own explanations.

Have a little faith in me, Volger. I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa

How great a spectacle! But that, I fear, Is all it is.

bazen bir an için kalk?p gitme, ba?lar? koparma cesaretini buluyorum kendimde, ke?ke nereye gidece?imi bilsem. herhalde giderdim.

Evet Wilhelm, bazen bir an için kalk?p gitme, ba?lar? koparma cesareti buluyorum kendimde, ke?ke nereye gidece?imi bilsem! heralde giderdim.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.

Buon Dio, tu che mi hai concesso tutti questi doni, perché non te ne sei tenuti la metà e non mi hai dato in cambio la fiducia in me stesso e la capacità di accontentarmi?

Eigentlich weiß man nur wenn man wenig weiß - mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel.

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor, Und bin so klug als wie zuvor! Heiße Magister, heiße Doktor gar, Und ziehe schon an die zehen Jahr' Herauf, herab und quer und krumm Meine Schüler an der Nase herum - Und sehe, daß wir nichts wissen können!

It could have been called the scam of the century, their pretense of a happy marriage,yet as several weeks passed and it continued with such perfection, Rebecca had to pinch herself to keep from believing it herself.

You knew I would not kill you!" "Not then I did not!

I wouldn't worry about him just yet, when I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to cut your throat

Belief is the enemy.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity! – Isaac Asimov

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. –WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

The trouble with this country is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

the rumor you most want to believe is the rumor you should be most skeptical of.