Quotes About Doubt

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

Most Christians long to see miracles, but they don't want to be put in a position where they will need one.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

JUDAS: Why ... didn't you make me good enough ... so that you could've loved me?

MARY MAGDALENE: I also knew Judas Iscariot very well. SAINT MONICA: Gangsta! MARY MAGDALENE: Out of the Twelve, he was the most moody and the most impetuous, and yet, he was my favorite. SAINT MONICA: Tupac!

Why didn't you make me good enough...so you could have loved me?

The truth ain't what it used to be.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

There are many reasons why people might only go through the motions. Two of the most common are that they do not believe a course of action is feasible or that they do not believe it makes sense.

All this notwithstanding, I have long been aware of strong reasons for doubting that mutation and selection can add enough new information of the right kind to account for large-scale, or "macroevolutionary," innovations—the various information revolutions that have occurred after the origin of life.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

But at the outset of the tale, Arjuna's central torment is not grasping. Or even its flip side—fear and aversion. No, it's clear to us that Arjuna is not really so much afraid as he is immobilized in a web of doubt. Stuck on the floor of the chariot. In