Quotes About Doubt

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief.

You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.

Anything that can be grasped must … depend on other things for their validity. Hence, they are doubtful and perplexing. Doubt is just the flipside of belief.

The moment we try to capture and encapsulate Truth, we have paradox, confusion, contention [and] doubt[.]

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

We engage in conceptualising to clarify, to understand, to find certitude. (…) [W]e go nowhere with this process[.] … [W]e teach uncertainty, doubt, and meaninglessness to our children, all in the name of 'truth' … [I]t just goes on, generation after generation, the continuation of greed, anger, and ignorance.

There are two kinds of knowledge … One consists of beliefs, opinions, conjectures – having an idea of something. (…) But this is not the true knowing. (…) We think that our beliefs and ideas can be relied on to give us satisfaction. … In fact, they're … our primary source of anxiety and fear, because they're always subject to contradiction and doubt.

When we cease to be bound by our concepts, our paradigms, our grasping, our inclinations of mind, our doubt ceases as well, because our knowledge is no longer dependent on anything beyond immediate, direct experience.

Lo primero que debe entender es que usted está demasiado inclinado a creer que su negocio triunfará.

TRAVIS: I never said I like boys! GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse? TRAVIS: No. GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards? TRAVIS: No. GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand? TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago. GORDO:What do you need—a fucking blueprint?

These experiences have caused him to think very hard about what he is doing and where he is going. And the result of all this thinking is that he now understands that he doesn't know what he is doing or where he is going.

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

Unless you have more information, however, it's hard to say what's causing what.

The next time you're in a real jam, facing an important question that you just can't answer, go ahead and make up something—and everyone will believe you, because you're the guy who all those other times was crazy enough to admit you didn't know the answer.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

A moral compass can convince you that all the answers are obvious (even when they're not); that there is a bright line between right and wrong (when often there isn't); and, worst, that you are certain you already know everything you need to know about a subject so you stop trying to learn more.

The next time you run into a question that you can only pretend to answer, go ahead and say "I don't know"—and then follow up, certainly, with "but maybe I can find out." And work as hard as you can to do that.

Beliefs," things we hold to be true but which may not be easily verified.

If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question. But if you ask the wrong question, you are almost guaranteed to get the wrong answer.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

Being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. —André Gide