Quotes About Doubt

nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Even as she helped the team of software guys and former Obama officials build the model that persuaded Newsom to shut down the state, Charity had decided that she was leaving. As children, she and her older sister had a phrase to describe the unsettling sensation of fresh doubt about some situation or some person: black smoke. The black smoke had rolled into state government with the virus and never left.

What could go wrong?

I'm seeing comments from people asking why WHO and CDC seem to be downplaying this," wrote Carter. "I'm certainly no public health expert . . . but no matter how I look at this, it looks bad." On January

A lot of what people did and said when they predicted things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, It's impossible to know for sure.

says. "There's only one Moses, but I'm not sure there's a Moses here." But Howard Mudd, who coached the Chargers' offensive line at the time, an

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

I said this was his story. I didn't say I believed it. I don't. You shouldn't either. That would be best.

But how could I bring it up? I'd actually be asking something else, and I wasn't sure I was ready to open that box. Even if it turned out to be empty, it would never be properly reclosed. Utterance is a one-way street. Questions can never be unasked.

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.

but we can only question what we know.

Reason was the only thing that might save them, and there was no reason.

The right ending is an open door you can't see too far out of. It can mean exactly the opposite of what you are thinking.

In fact I am about to type 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

Though the industrial logic that made feeding cattle to cattle seem like a good idea has been thrown into doubt by mad cow disease, I was surprised to learn it hadn't been discarded. The FDA ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants makes an exception for blood products and fat; my steer will probably dine on beef tallow recycled from the very slaughterhouse he's heading to in June.

negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.

How can we be certain, he was suggesting, that our experience of consciousness is "authentic"? The answer is we can't;

Compared with many scientists—or for that matter many spiritual types—Roland Griffiths possesses a large measure of what Keats, referring to Shakespeare, described as "negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.