Quotes About Doubt

You want to have faith. But you also want to reserve the right to challenge your own faith when it suits you.

once the habit of questioning his word got afoot in this sphere— and that too a sphere so vast as to encompass 'affairs of the world'—what was there to stop it from taking apart and examining what the Prophet had said on affairs of things other than the world? Where would that leave the religion? The anxieties could be kept at bay in one way and one way alone—by ensuring that nothing but nothing was examined. Accordingly, this has been the hallmark of faith.

those of little merit would not even have doubts about this doctrine of emptiness. even suspicion that objects are empty wrecks the seeds of cyclic existence.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Why would you need a DNA test? I already know you're a fucking space cadet.

He leaned close. "I look at you, I look at this." His gesture indicated the fine room, the fine people in it. "And I doubt you've ever been hungry in your life. It seemed a ridiculous thing to have to prove. She leaned closer, reached across his untouched plate, and plucked the small white carnation from his boutonniere. She bit the petals from the stem and chewed.

But I never could make much sense out of war.

I am naturally drawn to numbers but one of the ironies of working with numbers is that the more I work with them, the more skeptical I become about purely number-driven arguments.

Bullshit, as usual

But if one can't believe the Daily Telegraph one might as well become an Existentialist.

It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.

Cree en ti , pero no tanto; duda de ti, pero no tanto. Cuando sientas duda, cree; cuando creas, duda. En esto estriba la única verdadera sabiduría que puede acompañar a un escritor.

A cuántos sofismas acudes diariamente para ocultarte que eres un cobarde? Yo soy un cobarde.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Belief is ever its own tempter to believe differently

To believe or unbelieve is the question. Verily, if you believe of the least-ye needs must thrive all things. Ye are of all things, of all knowledge, and, be like, will you or stupidity to further self- misery!

Know my purpose: To be a stranger unto myself, the enemy of truth. Uncertain of what ye believe, belike ye half-desire?

We've all made selfish, bad decisions We've all tried dishing out the blame Convinced our selves of our own actions My problem is I'll never change In doubt, some good comes out I'll fold before it's time Can't promise you that it's my last time, yeah.