Quotes About Doubt

It can come a bit hard sometimes to see one's own unique, heroic life pinned so pitilessly to a wall. At other times it can endorse, affirm and save, but as I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters at all but me.

Intuition he did not reject. He knew that it is part of our equipment, and the sensitiveness he valued in himself and in others is connected with it. But he also knew that it can make dancing dervishes of us all, and that the man who believes a thing is true because he feels it in his bones, is not really very far removed from the man who believes it on the authority of a policeman's truncheon.

When you do not understand how something works it is perhaps natural to question and to doubt.

No, blasphemy only threatens those whose faith in their religion is weak

I doubt that he even considered that," Sebastian said. "His obsession is his entire horizon.

Faith," Bram Stoker once said, "is to be found more often in a theater than in a church.

When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!

I'm the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I'm obviously physically challenged. Whether I'm a genius is more open to doubt.

Tapi kita selalu bisa mempertanyakan kompetensi orang yang melakukan pengamatan.

Când aveam 12 ani, unul dintre prietenii mei a pariat cu un altul, pe o pung? de bomboane, c? n-o s? se aleag? nimic de mine. Nu ÅŸtiu dac? pariul a fost respectat ÅŸi, dac? da, care dintre cei doi a avut dreptate.

Când analiz?m mai atent felul în care ne facem observaÈ›iile È™i ne construim concepte despre ceea ce ne înconjoar?, ajugem s? ne întreb?m dac? avem motive întemeiate s? credem c? exist? o realitate obiectiv?.

las personas siempre se aferrarán a la religión, porque proporciona consuelo, y porque no confían ni entienden la ciencia.

Could he be an angel? Castro didn't believe in God, but he believed in God's angels, paradoxical or not. Possibly this man was such an angel.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ".

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand. He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.