Quotes About Doubt

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

I want to be two thousand percent sure before I get married. It should last forever.

Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?

Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Amy, honey." He rubbed my arm gently, as if telling me bad news. "You shouldn't listen to me. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

I'm very curious to meet a guy who makes you completely forsake the scientific method in favor of unfounded supposition and speculation." "It's called intuition!

patient compromises? 'I was afraid. I was

said maybe I will call myself Ross H. Spencer. I said he can't write either.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.