Quotes About Doubt

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

i wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?

There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth.

Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.