Quotes About Doubt

Do not let yourself be deceived: great spirits are sceptical. Zarathustra is a sceptic. The power, the freedom that comes from the strength and super-strength of spirit, proves itself through scepticism.

Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!

El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;

Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?

it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?

At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite." —Human, All Too Human, "Assorted Opinions and Maxims

IF there were gods, how could I endure it to be no God!

Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us—or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

people who run must have something to run from, and half the time it's not there and half the time, of course, it is; only you never know which is which

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living

We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.

The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars

People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.

If I was married to a guy like that, chances are good he'd wind up being a suspicious smell in the attic

a hitetlenség erÅ'sebb a hitnél, mert az érzékekre támaszkodik.

Lucien?" "Yes, Alice?" Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.

I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.