Quotes About Doubt

Between religion and knowledge, he said, a person must choose knowledge.

believe in God, but I don't believe in church.

Que sais-je?'—what do I know?

Like many other Catholics, Esmond had a crust of Catholic complacency over a thin layer of doubt, which spanned a deep morass of sheer terror.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man which repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. so when one begins to doubt one begins to cease to believe in a world order in which God has a different place. One really begins to think that God is on leave.

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

People say you have to have faith because believing is irrational. So I end up thinking that the more irrational things seem, the more likely they are to be true.

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I no longer verify.

Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of great superiority from this very cowardice itself.

Morality resides in the painfulness of an indefinite questioning

One has no right to make up one's mind about the future in advance.

One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addressed another word to Him. In my heart of hearts I was very glad He didn't exist. I should have hated it if what was going on here below had had to end up in eternity.

I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life

Görüyorsunuz ya, ne zaman Tanr?'y? aramaya kalksam, bir erkekle kar??la??yorum; hangi dine yöneleceÄŸimi ÅŸa??rd?m.

I know nothing, nothing. I not only have no answer to give, but I haven't even found a satisfactory way of propounding the questions.

La tierra está a mi alrededor como una vasta hipótesis que ya no verifico.

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I can no longer verify.

Manette: - Cette Jeunesse ne croit à rien. [...] Vous ne croyez pas non plus à grand-chose. [...] André est contre tous. C'est ça la faute. C'est pour ça que Philippe (son fils) a mal tourné. Il faut être pour quelque chose.

The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.