Quotes About Doubt

given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

If you're interested in being your best, your inner monologue needs to support the best you want to be. In fact, when it comes to sustained performance, because doubt and disappointment are constant companions, controlling your thoughts is often the ball game.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. —George Carlin

As Thomas Macaulay reflected in 1830, "We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. . . . On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?

fallaciously pessimistic.

Dile a la gente que hay un hombre invisible en el cielo que creó el universo y la inmensa mayoría te creerá. Dile que la pintura está húmeda y tendrá que tocar para asegurarse.

mitigate and credible and credulous. What this means

It begins with skepticism.147 The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. One therefore ought to seek good reasons for believing something.

As an experimental psychologist I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores. To

Human nature may be studied, just as anything else in the world may be. And our decisions on how to organize our lives can take the facts of human nature into account—including the discounting of our own intuitions when a scientific understanding casts them in doubt.

Are you infallible? Are you certain that you're right about everything? If so, what makes you different from your opponents, who also are certain they're right?

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Whenever you're in doubt about any action, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? You can also ask, what would love do now?

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

You doubt because you love truth.