Quotes About Doubt

Excuse me, said the owner of the metal hand in a voice that would have made an insect of a more sentimental disposition collapse in tears. This was not such an insect, and it couldn't stand robots. Yes, sir, it snapped, can I help you? I doubt it, said Marvin.

I have been listening," said Arthur, "but I'm not sure it's helped.

He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

But can we trust him?" he said. "Myself I'd trust him to the end of the Earth," said Ford.

Ä°lk sav?n sahipleri meselenin bu olmad???n? söylüyorlard?. Meselenin ne olduÄŸuna tam olarak emin deÄŸillerdi, ama bu olmad???n? biliyorlard?.

How can I tell, said the man, that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" Zarniwoop stared at him. The steam began to rise from his sodden clothes. So you answer all questions like this? he said. The man answered quickly. I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

How can you tell there's anything out there?' said the man politely. 'The door's closed.

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

He had no idea what he was in for, but he knew that he hadn't liked anything that had happened so far and didn't think things were likely to change.

What are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet,' said Zaphod quietly. 'I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

similar to that which Macbeth had towards murdering people – initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm and then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking and still no end in sight.

But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remotely possible that any godlike being who could order the disposition of particles at the creation of the Universe would also be interested in directing traffic on the M4, did not want her to fly to Norway either.

I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

I refuse to prove that I exist," says God "for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing".

He hoped and prayed there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here, and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

What are you crazy? It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet said Zaphod quietly. I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good

It's all devastatingly true — except the bits that are lies

I was attempting to do something I had never done before, and whenever we challenge ourselves, fear and doubt are inevitable. I am not sure we ever vanquish these voices. Whenever we are at the edge of our ability and experience, they always whisper in our ears, their worried words. I have come to see that these voices are actually trying to keep us safe as they warn us away from the unfamiliar and the unknown, but this does not make their daggers of self-doubt any less painful.

God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.

I thought I was going to see God or reach an epiphany or to levitate or something. But I never did. I prayed so long for that to happen. I think maybe I didn't surrender myself enough - I think that's the term: surrender. I still wanted to keep a foot in both worlds. And then this past year I've still been waiting for the same big cosmic moments, and still nothing's happened...

It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their leg.