Quotes About Doubt

JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Your client is Judas Iscariot! Your client sold out the son of God, for Chrissakes!

Why... didn't you make me good enough... so that you could've loved me?

CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers.

CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers. MOTHER TERESA: Must be hard to have only questions.

Great doubt—great awakening; Little doubt—little awakening; No doubt—no awakening.

By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.

I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be but it doesn't feel right

I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it?

I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

I said yes because I didn't want to do anything wrong.

People who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't. nothing will work out the way they want.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm starting to get scared.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. But I guess I did worry about it […] And I wonder if anyone is really happy

America is exceptional. Does that statement shock you? It shocks me to have to say it! To be forced by your doubt to say out loud that America is exceptional implies something ugly. It's like telling the host of a dinner party 'I'm certain your wife is a female.' Saying it out loud just feels wrong. No matter how big her hands are.

He occasionally tried to fathom a comrade with seductive sentences. He looked about to find men in the proper mood. All attempts failed to bring forth any statement which looked in any way like a confession to those doubts which he privately acknowledged in himself. He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.

he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.

Henry Fleming?

It is perhaps the consummate irony," Arthur Moore writes, "that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reason for a return to a simpler condition.

Although both men were full of resolve, the defender could not keep his doubts out of his mind, while the attacker refused to entertain any doubts. (Rommel vs. Eisenhower)