Quotes About Doubt

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestras convicciones más arraigadas, más indubitables, son las más sospechosas. Ellas constituyen nuestro límite, nuestros confines, nuestra prisión" (José Ortega y Gasset)

Hoje, de tanto que tudo nos parece possível, pressentimos que também o pior seja possível: o retrocesso, a barbárie, a decadência.

insanlar, uygar dünyan?n sahnelediÄŸi trajedilerin gerçekliÄŸine inanmad?klar? için bu trajidelerin parças? olurlar.

La fe es la antítesis del fanatismo. La firmeza del genio es una suprema dignidad del propio Ideal; la falta de creencias sólidamente cimentadas convierte al mediocre en fanático. La fe se confirma en el choque con las opiniones contrarias; el fanatismo teme vacilar ante ellas e intenta ahogarlas.

The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!

Se detuvo, sospechando algo terrible, tomó entre sus manos un poco de mar. Y lo temido ocurrió. En el hueco de sus manos, el mar dejaba de ser azul, era sólo agua transparente. Acortar la distancia para destruir el encanto.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.

Pensé que era fácil empezar. Abrí un cuaderno, comprado expresamente. Preparé un plan, hice una especie de esquema. [...] Pero inmediatamente sentí el temor.

When I consider the question, whether there are such persons in the world as those we call witches? my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions; or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as witchcraft; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I wish to be certain that I am converted myself, before I leave my converted brethren to convert heathens.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

I had no doubt in my mind that I loved Alice (Tom Ward).

In the heat of battle, all things are uncertain.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

You said electronic lock. I didn't know it was a TL-30X6." "I don't like your tone, Merlin. You sound very pessimistic. Maybe even defeatist." "Heller, listen to me. I brought my StrongArm safe cracker diamond-core drill bits, okay? But drilling through one of these, that's a five-hour job at least. That mother's made from inch-and-a-half-thick steel and cobalt-carbide matrix hardplate, okay?" "If you say so.

on Dekens' face. "Possibly.