Quotes About Doubt

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Some Americans question Donald Trump's legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let's not forget that one of Donald Trump's claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy - more than that, the citizenship - of President Barack Obama.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

It hurts me to consider anybody questioning my performances.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

With Froch everyone was questioning me and I was trying to prove a point.

To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.