Quotes About Doubt

The irony is that the more they achieve and the better they do, the less people are inclined to believe them, and the more they feel forced to then stay in the closet.

Can this really call itself a cake when its main ingredients are cheese and carrots?

What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. I

Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him.

What does it mean to persevere? It means that we continue to believe, and that we live like believers, which means obediently. It doesn't mean sinlessness; it doesn't mean that we are on some steady and never-failing incline up into pure sanctification; it does not deny stumbling or messy spirituality; it doesn't deny doubt and problems. It simply means that the person continues to walk with Jesus and doesn't walk away from him in a resolute manner.

prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.

I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more.

Stacy wasn't certain; she'd never bothered to pay attention to details like that, and was always regretting it, the half knowing, which felt worse than not knowing at all, the constant sense that she had things partly right, but not right enough to make a difference.

Most people doubt online meetings can work, but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." — Buddha

Ambiguity makes everyone tolerant of incompetence.

voices have more data. We get tons of information (humor, attitude, nuance) you can't get from text. When in doubt, go voice.

I think we might as well believe in Christ as believe in anything," Beatrice said. "I mean, Christ makes as much sense and anything else I can think of." "Like Success," Rodney said. "Or Self," I said. "Or Family," Beatrice said. "Or Woman. Love. Disease. Heartbreak. Death. God. Goals. Reification. Fried food. High fiber optics. Disinvestment. Cancer. AIDS. Genes, skin, tissue, soul.

All I know is that I do not believe in anything anymore and that I must find something to believe in or I will cease to be.

I do not believe in goodness in the world anymore. What is good either dies or is killed.

I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope.

I don't believe you," said Conté. "I wouldn't fucking believe you if you told me my name was Conté. I wouldn't believe you if you told me fire was hot and water was wet.

Better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.

Let's start wobbling, shall we? said Locke's knees, but this offer was met by a counterproposal from his better judgement to simply freeze up and do nothing, like a man treading water who sees a tall black fin coming straight at him.

No, Mistress of Doubts, I've brought you here to this secluded corner of the city for the nefarious purpose of cooking your dinner myself.

Q: Why didn't the chicken cross the road? A: Because he was a chicken.