Quotes About Doubt

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

I bet there's nothing wrong with Barbara's husband, she said. I bet he'd be surprised if he found out he's supposed to be in the hospital.

For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

I didn't doubt the correctness of the information for an instant – I still tend to trust the pronouncements of scientists in the way I trust those of surgeons, plumbers, and other possessors of arcane and privileged information

So we are stuck with a theory, and we do not know whether it is right or wrong, but we do know that it is a little wrong, or at least incomplete." In

Mr. President," he says, almost like a southern drawl, thick with incredulity. This man could look you in the eye and tell you that the world is flat, the sun rises in the west, and the moon is made of blue cheese, and he'd probably pass a polygraph test while doing so.

Inauthenticity among the ranks of those claiming to be Christians can become an almost insurmountable barrier to belief.

I don't like the word atheist because to me it mirrors the certainty of religion. I preach the gospel of I don't know.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

would pass in the street, mostly people whose existence I did not believe in

Always be suspicious or of course: of course is not a reason.

Atheists . What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.

At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.

Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were, they would be wrong.

What must I do? I see nothing but obscurities on every side.' 'Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I am God?

We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain.

Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.

God is or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Let us weigh the gain and the lose in wagering that God is. Let us estimate the two changes. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, lose nothing. Wager then without any hesitation that He is

É impossível compreender que Deus exista, e é também impossível compreender que não exista; que a alma esteja unida ao corpo, e que não exista alma; que o mundo tenha sido criado, e que não tenha sido criado...