Quotes About Doubt

And besides, thought Yoshida, If it was all right for God to test man, why was it wrong for man to test God?

Tell me," said Sumire, "have you ever felt confused about what you're doing, like it's not right?" "I spend more time being confused than not," I answered.

Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.

Perhaps nothing can be certain in this world, I said. But at least we can believe in something.

When it came down to it, though, could anything be completely correct, or completely incorrect? We lived in a world where rain might fall thirty percent, or seventy percent, of the time. Truth was probably no different. There could be thirty percent or seventy percent truth.

I don't know , sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

I wonder what either of us knows about love. Our love has never been tested.

Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of mysterious question marks seems like a minor sin.

I'm caught between one void and another. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I don't even know what I want any more.

Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's not.

Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all. But I know for sure that they did happen.

He found it increasingly difficult to accept the strict codes of the sect that clashed with ordinary values.

As he watched his father, Tengo started to have doubts about the difference between a person being alive and being dead. Maybe there really wasn't much of a difference to begin with, he though, maybe we just decided, for convenience's sake, to insist on a difference.

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.

Lo correcto, ¿qué diablos significa eso? ¿Me lo puedes explicar? A decir verdad, no sé muy bien qué es lo correcto. Lo que no es correcto sí lo sé, pero lo correcto, ¿qué es?

It is often said that there are no atheists in foxholes. It seems to me that shelled bunkers would be full of skeptics. In the middle of a war it must be harder, not easier, to believe in a good God.

They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?

What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?

There was a painting of Jesus rolling his eyes up at the sky in every room.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Realise, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think I ought to be doing something else.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.