Quotes About Doubt

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

In fact he claimed that he was removing an untenable knowledge of God in order to make room for faith.

Une des plus grandes sources d'erreurs, c'est de prendre le probable pour certain, et l'improbable pour impossible.

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

It's only when people believe that their beliefs are above questioning, that their beliefs alone are beyond all doubt, that they can be as truly horrible as we all know they can be.

The downfall is that we humans think about a lot of stuff that's not actually real. We crave certainty in areas where there can never be any. That's when we start in with believing the crazy stuff.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

There is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God's goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

Why worry when you have nothing to fear. Why fear when no one else worries.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Life is a series of tales woven with doubt in order to test your faith . . not in some god or religion . . but in your self.

Kill your doubt with the coldest of weapons: Confidence.

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.

For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt

In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, duty, and honor?