Quotes About Doubt

And you?" said Roland. "You're only a boy. You don't belong here. Aren't you frightened?

Faith is belief based on spiritual conviction instead of proof. You could say that the nature of my convictions has changed recently.

People who believe in buried gods,' said Louis. 'Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?' 'I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself.

Whenever someone uses the word 'glitch,' which means a fault of some kind in a system, you should immediately be suspicious, because it means that they don't know what it is. A technician who uses the term 'glitch' is like a doctor who tells you you're suffering from a 'thingy,' except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

In the end, the truth doesn't matter.

even if she saw a ghost, she still wouldn't believe it.

Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.

A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.

Christianity is perfectly easy or perfectly impossible. It depends on who's running the ship.

He wavered suddenly, doubted doubts. He looked at his big beloved.

That was what did the harm, knowing the one, believeing the other.

Are you sure," she said, looking within, "that this is where I'm spose to be?" "Oh, it certainly is." "Boy. It's real little in here." "Oh, yes it is. Won't you please step right on in.

The Enlightenment dared us to think, but there will always be a religion and a God for those who wouldn't dare.

interesting ones." "I find that hard to believe," Linda said.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur. To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry ? these are the essentials of thinking.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Poor heretics there be, Which think to establish dangerous constancy, But I have told them, 'Since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely, in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is: on a huge hill, Cragg'd, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation.