Quotes About Doubt

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

In that moment, she knew she would take the coward's way out,

Can I really do this?

I barely knew him but I had a feeling he might not be the dream date Talya was hoping he would be. Talya

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

The truth is your servant, not your master. What is the truth, anyway? Does any of us really know what's true? And is truth an absolute? Can't things be sort of true? A little bit true? True in a deeper sense? True enough for military work? True for me, not for you? All too true?

Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez.

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

Ä°nsan zekas?n? hiçbir ÅŸey tutkulu bir ÅŸüpheden fazla keskinleÅŸtirmez, karanl?klara uzanan bir izin peÅŸinden ?srarla gitmek kadar baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey o güne kadar olgunlaÅŸmam?? zekay? geliÅŸtirmez.

Neyin gerçek, neyin yanl?? olduÄŸunu öyle uzaktan, insanlar?n sana anlatt?klar?na bakarak nas?l bilebilirsin ki?

But I don't really know where to go. I have no plans and no destination in mind - I feel I can't live in either of my two worlds...

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cÅ"ur.

Was it not intelligible that the new generation lost every trace of respect? It doubted parents, politicians, teachers; every decree, every proclamation of the State was read with a dubious eye. The post-war generation emancipated itself with a violent wrench from the established order and revolted against every tradition, determined to mold its own fate, to abandon bygones and to soar into the future.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Is there a rug?' she asked, hanging fire. 'Nay. The sins burnin' in yer marrow will keep yer warm.

I don't think I shall marry if I'm asked. There's too much occupational risk.

None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?