Quotes About Doubt

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists.

You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.

I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.