Quotes About Doubt

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...

In a weak moment I have written a book...

When such thoughts came she did not pray hastily to God, telling Him she did not mean it. God did not frighten her any more.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Some people think technology has the answers.

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

You can't walk in faith and fear at the same time.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.

I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.