Quotes About Doubt

Als het tenminste waar is wat je me vertelt. Want weet je, hoe vervelend ik het ook vind, je hebt me al zoveel verhaaltjes op de mouw gespeld dat het me moeilijk valt er ook maar iets van te geloven.

Als je zo doorgaat, zul je uiteindelijk nog verliefd op me worden.' 'Dat nooit, Ricardito. Daar wil ik alles om verwedden.

Perdóneme, señor Casement. Vivir tantos años en la Amazonia me ha vuelto un poco escéptico sobre la idea de progreso. En Iquitos, uno termina por no creer en nada de eso. Sobre todo, en que algún día la justicia vaya a hacer retroceder a la injusticia.

Dudaba a veces de la trascendencia, de Dios, pero nunca de la función irremplazable del catolicismo como instrumento de contención social de las pasiones y apetitos desquiciadores de la bestia humana.

Ik zei dat ze gekwetst was omdat ik had ontdekt dat ze ondanks al haar terughoudendheid, grofheden en beledigingen wel degelijk iets voor me voelde. (...) 'Denk je dat? Dat zul je nog wel merken dat dat niet zo is, knulletje.

Smith hace una curiosa diferencia entre el comerciante audaz al que su profesión incita a ser arriesgado y el hacendado tímido, que duda mucho antes de invertir. Por eso, el comerciante es el verdadero pionero del progreso.

Todo eso era verdad, pero también lo era que la idea de Dios no cabía en el limitado recinto de la razón humana. Había que meterla allí con calzador porque nunca encajaba del todo. Él y Herbert Ward habían hablado muchas veces de este asunto. "En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar", decía Herbert. "Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo

Queta, señora? Sí, y Amalia no lo creía, con el

Ik ben benieuwd of je nog verliefder op me wordt of me in de steek laat voor een van die ondeugende Peruaanse meisjes, brave jongen.' 'Wat ondeugende Peruaanse meisjes betreft heb ik aan jou mijn handen al meer dan vol.

Pero un día perdí la fe y nunca más la he recobrado. Creo que la perdí apenas empecé a pensar. Para ser creyente no conviene pensar mucho.

Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging off of it: One pull, the whole thing unraveled.

The key to wisdom is doubt!

My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical.

We give meaning to life based on our point of view. Only wisdom, like the light of the candle, can bring us a complete view of existence. The key to wisdom is doubt! If you doubted a little, you would definitely be less arrogant.

Against the certainties of the American command, the truth never stood a chance.

Beware of men with theories that explain everything.

anyone who asserts so often that he is telling the truth probably isn't.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Back in high school, once she suspected that I was probably not a Christian, she did not break up with me as she should have.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.

I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this.

He no longer believes in the gods. He has heard too many contradictory stories on his travels. Better, surely, that everyone is deluded than that revelation has been so parsimoniously handed out. If he has a religion it is that of grass and rivers, of mountains and of skies that continue beyond the ends even of our longest journeys.

All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents." At