Quotes About Doubt

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full passionate intensity

Humans have been shouting their question for millennia: Why in God's name won't you show up? They say it when the moment seems to demand a force to do good: If you are God, then do something. But to show up in those moments would be to come in your name, not Mine. My ways are not your ways.

Nobody knows and you can't find out

Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain, because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better evidence or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use but is also in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Mitch Turner interested him a lot. Until he met Turner, I think he doubted that farang had souls. When he saw what a mess Turner was in, what he called the 'great howl of agony' at the center of this man, he felt he'd understood why the West is the way it is.

Do you have anything—a cross, a bible?" I asked him. "Course not! I'm a man of science." "And if the shadow that wields the Great Fear manifests here?" "I'll hide behind you and cry like a girl, as befits a man of science.

Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

we shall find that the reason why   we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his   power.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

A good question is never answered.

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

He had found it hard to equate the priest's God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully.

cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.