Quotes About Doubt

didn't dare to peer into the future.

don't like the sound of that," says Suze at last.

Suze us my oldest, dearest friend, and being with her used to feel like the easiest thing in the world. But now it feels like I'm in a stage play and I've forgotten my lines and she's not about to help me out.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

I say you are the murderer you hunt.

But don't convict me on sheer unverified surmise.

What if you're wholly wrong?

My god, my god—what have you planned to do to me?

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off

The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.

All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

But what every man has not a right to do, is to make others believe that faith is something lowly, or that it is an easy thing, whereas it is the greatest and the hardest.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.