Quotes About Doubt

I was not meant to be an atheist.

he was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight it made other men question if they were.

What else will we do?" I asked, turning to leave. "This is the only plan we have." "This isn't a plan," Prof said. "It's hormones.

Sazed shook his head, walking over to stand beside her. "Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue in it after failure?" Vin frowned. "Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure…ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.

Scared to go onward," Kaladin said, "but terrified to go back to what you were.

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

El propósito del cuentacuentos no es decirte cómo pensar, sino plantearte dudas que te hagan reflexionar. Demasiado a menudo, lo olvidamos. -Hoid-

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him.

How easily Elend spoke of hope and humor, as if being happy were simply a decision one made. Some people assumed that it was. Once, Sazed might have agreed with them. Now, his stomach simply twisted, and he felt sick at the thought of taking pretty much any action. His thoughts were constantly invaded by doubts.

So... wait. You're saying that on the other side?where I obviously believed in the other side?I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?" Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?

Maybe it doesn't matter what he thinks. It's hard to feel that, but I can say it. That feels like a different kind of lying. One that's not all untrue.

Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure…ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.

Al apuntarme había puesto el seguro. Si aquello no era amor verdadero, no sé qué lo es.

You don't know what you're saying," Ua'pam said. "And that might just be why Maya and I are able to do things you think impossible.

I was pretty sure she was just mimicking me. And to be honest, I didn't know if "she" was a she—weren't slugs, like, both or something?

Despite that loyalty, Hrathen had never felt what Dilaf now expressed. Hrathen had no hatreds so severe that he wept, no loves so profound that he would risk everything in their name. He had always believed that he was the perfect follower of Jaddeth; that his Lord needed levelheadedness more than He needed unbridled ardor. Now, however, he wondered.

Could a man both believe, and not believe, at the same time?

I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid

That had never made sense to Kaladin. The Almighty was supposed to be able to see all and know all. So why did he need a prayer to be burned before he would do anything? Why did he need people to fight for him in the first place?

How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?

She didn't know if she was speaking to Grandmother or the God Beyond. So often, they were the same in her mind. Had she ever realized that before?

I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone claims. —From Oathbringer, preface

He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them. So

I think," M-Bot said, "maybe the Superiority might not be very nice.