Quotes About Doubt

He sees the shit that happens around me - or because of me - so now he is only 99.99 percent certain I can't turn him into a frog.

So he definitely hadn't been angry, and I definitely had believed he was. This meant something inside of me — something I had relied on my entire life — was essentially faulty. My compass, my inner homing pigeon, my deeper instincts. Since mine clearly could not be trusted, I would have to rely on his.

To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true. --Atlas Shrugged

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Everything bad comes from the mind, because the mind asks too many questions. It is blessed to believe, not to understand.

Only one hand went up. "Well, it looks like we've got one honest person in our group!" she said. And then continued, "Maybe you'll like this next question better. How many here think other people are afraid of change?" Practically everyone raised their hands. Then they all started laughing.

Without mystery, there was no faith.

They had contracted a kind of autoimmune disorder, deploying against themselves the very furies they so feared.

We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are.

We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are. We

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. —VOLTAIRE

Samuel Willard

But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?

ignoramus et ignorabimus

Unease flickered in his eyes. "It's not so straightforward," I said in a deliberately light tone. "I don't mean the traditional God of terrestrial beliefs. I'm no specialist in religion, and I may not have come up with anything new, but do you happen to know if there ever existed a faith in… a defective God?

Non ero pazzo. L'ultima speranza si dileguava.

Someone fond of paradoxes and sufficiently stubborn could go on doubting that the ocean was a living being. But it was impossible to deny the existence of its mind, whatever could be understood by the term. It had become quite clear that it was only too aware of our presence above it…

Jesus, I give you my weariness. I give you my doubt. I give you my desire to give up. I come with my thirst. I offer you my desire, my gifting, my weakness, my need, my failure, my everything. I give you all that I am, God. I give you my love.

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is."5

Io non so se Dio esiste, ma se non esiste ci fa una figura migliore.

Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.

Nowadays a bitter wife or husband might ask, "Whatever possessed me to think I loved you enough to marry you?" Through most of the past, he or she was more likely to have asked, "Whatever possessed me to marry you just because I loved you?

Cookie, you have to stop preemptively ending things before they even start. I know you're afraid of making yourself vulnerable, but if you keep impeding things before they even begin, just out of fear, you'll never know. I'd never know joy. Shit damn. I worried she was right. What if I was snapping into screw you, your loss mode too fast? How do you take back, No you're the one who missed? Me and my drama trap doors.

EL-FAYOUMY: Yes. Mother. Is there a Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I hope not, but I think so.