Quotes About Doubt

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?''

It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

Fear is a real thing.

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

You know, a lot of people give up their religion, but, oh, my goodness, they go through such agonies. I never did.