Quotes About Doubt

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my own governing method, ignorance.

There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.

Nichts wird so fest geglaubt wie das, was wir am wenigsten wissen.

God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.

Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must.

Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious. With God, nothing shall be impossible, proclaimed Luke, and that message, which Peter had always thought was the most joyously positive reassurance you could wish for, now turned itself over like a dying insect, and became Without God, everything shall be impossible.

Una vez fuera del coche, se quedó dudando antes de cerrar la puerta, mientras intentaba encontrar unas palabras apropiadas que decirle. -Y usted es...-Respiró hondo, cogiendo aire-.Es... preciosa - dijo por fin con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja. Isserley le devolvió la sonrisa y, de pronto, se sintió totalmente agotada. -Hasta pronto-le dijo.

There is no God.

But there were some questions that one must not ask of God. There were some uncertainties one must face alone.

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all.

I'm well aware that I shouldn't be telling you these things; rather, I want to tell you these things, but I'm not certain they're worth publishing. I'm a bit terrified at the idea that one day they'll be discovered.

Si vous saviez, lorsque vous commencez à écrire un livre, ce que vous allez dire à la fin, croyez-vous que vous auriez le courage de l'écrire?

You'd quit long before she ever would." This stopped me. "What makes you say that?" "Jennie has an agenda. You're still equivocating. I watched you observing, taking notes. Hugging the sidelines. Not sure if this is your milieu—just like you were in seminary: never sure if you should be a minister or a writer, so not committing to either." "I still wonder if I made the right choice," I said. "But am I really that obvious?

You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Truth or fiction, you don't have to believe anyone's story. You don't have to form an opinion about what someone says. You don't have to express your own opinion. You don't have to agree

La primera regla resulta muy sencilla: No me creas.

Words don't need to be spoken to devastate. They have only to be thought. Words band together to form opinions, which strut along the back roads of our minds, inciting doubt and controversy. Opinions rally toward a cause—a belief.

instead of doubting yourself, have faith in yourself. Instead of doubting the truth, doubt the lies. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.