Quotes About Doubt

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

You believe what your eyes want to believe!

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.""You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

The youth felt it would be useless to clear up the problem of his name.

Those who can't be loyal never believe when others are

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

I don't care what is written, Meyer Landsman says. I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.

Singletary arched an eyebrow then, after taking a look around the room, smiled a dubious but encouraging smile, the way you might smile at someone about to depress the ignition button on a homemade jetpack.

All he would have needed to do, to find comfort in the Christian's words, was to believe.

bullshit sniffer set as ever to a brutally low ppm.

They wring their hands, should I do this, should I do that. They get seventeen different opinions. Then they do what they planned to do all along. If you give advice, they only blame you when it turns out bad.

He could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

Under the circumstances, skepticism had felt like a kind of madness; to choose belief was the only way forward.