Quotes About Doubt

Waar eindigde zijn geloof en waar begonnen de komedie en de berekening?

Si tu doutes de ta victoire alors tu admets ta défaite

There is only one right answer to any given question at any given time, and how can I tell when the time has come to know the difference?

We get nervous or anxious when talking to new people. It is because people are generally uncomfortable with the unknown. You

Never trust someone who isn't miserable at least half of the time.

The same thing as you, the same as she. The same as anyone who has ever been doubted or told to go away. To prove myself better.

In younger years, he'd wonder whether he was more doctor or writer. Since the dark period back home, he questioned if he was really either—witnessing death all around him had robbed him of both.

Nobody knew what they were supposed to believe or what neighbors and relatives believed. Ghosts suddenly became as legitimate an option as anyone's god.

Many humans live their entire lives without questioning the 'truths' they've been told.

What the hell is wrong with you? he asked. It was a good question.

What tinfoil? he asked.

I had no idea if he had asked me because he liked me, or if his mom made him (our parents know each other), or because he lost a bet.

Like what?" he said, giving me a sideways glance, slipping in the process. "Saying that they're lucky.

It all feels so fake that it seems okay.

Reason is the most naive of all superstitions.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. "Reason," Dr. Pritchett had told them, "is the most naive of all superstitions.

They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

If one asks him the reasons of his convictions, one will discover that his convictions are a thin, fragile film floating over a vacuum, like an oil slick in empty space—and one will be shocked by the number of questions it had never occurred to him to ask.

They used to rush through here, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

Dr. Simon Pritchett. He was declaring that the new invention was an instrument of social welfare, which guaranteed general prosperity, and that anyone who doubted this self-evident fact was an enemy of society, to be treated accordingly.

I'm not sure we're right to quit, you and I, when we should have fought them. But there is no way to fight. It's surrender, if we leave—and surrender, if we remain. I don't know what is right any longer." "Check your premises, Dagny. Contradictions don't exist.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

You yourself told us that in the final analysis we are our own betrayers, playing Judas to our own Christ

The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right—and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.