Quotes About Doubt

Religion explains what man cannot explain. But when I see something before my eyes, and my religion hastens to assure me that I am mistaken, that I do not see it at all . . . No, I may no longer be a Quaker, after all.

Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creerle. Entiendo cómo te sientes.

Montaigne said three hundred years ago, 'Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

Look boy' Wyatt said. 'I know you're from back east, but nobody's that stupid

Es un hecho —afirmó Sarah—. Los seres humanos acumulan información errónea, así que es difícil saber a quién creer.

Pero la ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

Who wouldn't want to fuck these people up? Which of us does not understand, in our own less presentable depths, the demons and wizards compelled to persecute human mutations clearly meant, by deities thinking only of their own entertainment, to make almost everyone feel even lonelier and homelier, more awkward, more doubtful and blamed, than we actually are?

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

Ä°nsanlar kendilerini korkutan ÅŸeylere çok daha çabuk inan?yorlar. Bu da bir bilmece.

When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you'll help them persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...

What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

They actually spent time wondering how people who had been so sensationally right (i.e., they themselves) could preserve the capacity for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty that had enabled them to be right. The more sure you were of yourself and your judgment, the harder it was to find opportunities premised on the notion that you were, in the end, probably wrong. The

It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong, to believe that most important financial people are either lying or deluded - without being insane.

Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others.

Jamie Mai was tall and strikingly handsome and so, almost by definition, had the air of a man in charge—until he opened his mouth and betrayed his lack of confidence in everything from tomorrow's sunrise to the future of the human race.

The options suited the two men's personalities: They never had to be sure of anything. Both were predisposed to feel that people, and by extension markets, were too certain about inherently uncertain things. Both sensed that people, and by extension markets, had difficulty attaching the appropriate probabilities to highly improbable events. Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others.

It wasn't that what first came to mind was always wrong; it was that its existence in your mind led you to feel more certain than you should be that it was correct.

a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

He had a diffidence about him—an understanding of how hard it is to know anything for sure. The closest he came to certainty was in his approach to making decisions. He never simply went with his first thought. He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

There, a year later, at the age of thirteen, Danny made his final decision about God. "I still remember where I was—the street in Jerusalem. I remember thinking that I could imagine there was a God, but not one who cared whether or not I masturbate. I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

The consulting firm that eventually hired him was forever asking him to exhibit confidence when, in his view, confidence was a sign of fraudulence.

There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error.