Quotes About Doubt

Was it still a miracle if someone had to suffer?

Don't you think I haven't already?' Miriam said wearily. 'I think about it every day, and always I ask myself what Jehoshua would have done . . .

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Similarly, if you're trying to prove something mathematically, it's possible that no proof exists.

Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once

Am I a Jew? [ . . . ] Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?

You shouldn't love me. I don't deserve you.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn't working

I have trust issues." "I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that.

Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

His eyes were narrowed as he spoke, bitten a little with perplexity at the uselessness of being right against the world.

As God as my judge, I don't know where I went wrong!

Always leave the critics with the word how on their lips.

Some hopefuls believe that the world can be saved, but the cruel and twisted say never.

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss, und kaum das.

Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I," When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Like to an hermit poor in place obscure,I mean to spend my days of endless doubt,To wail such woes as time cannot recure,Where none but Love shall ever find me out.