Quotes About Doubt

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.

The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points (in contemporary theology) do not in themselves indicate a deep final uncertainty, an alienation from the gospel.

A feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty. It is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us free.

The perspective of Thomas' confession - 'My Lord and God' - must prevail through all our thinking and all our reinterpretations ... All reinterpretation should be tested by whether it can participate in this confession.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

The last madness I'll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

Mais la Terre serait plate si personne ne se posait de questions dessus.

Comunismul pune la îndoial? totul ?i respinge orice proiect care l-a precedat. Singurul lucru pe care comunismului nu-l pune la îndoial? este proiectul propriu. De aceea comunismul se instaleaz? dintr-o dat? în prostia ca încremenire în proiect

Despre dezvoltarea societ??ii: "Cu cât o societate ofer? mai pu?ine alternative, cu atât proiectele indivizilor decurg din cele câteva proiecte ?i norme oficial recunoscute, cu cât o societate las? loc mai pu?in loc pentru cultura îndoielii ?i pentru înv??ul dezv??ului, cu atât prostia ca încremenire în proiect câ?tig? teren ?i scleroza acelei societ??i este mai mare

Credin?a nu este, nu a fost ?i nu va fi niciodat? o virtute.

My brain said no. But my heart!

Jesus, I thought Zuckerman was cheating in you, Chief.

I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything.

Will she be okay?" Sam said. "I think so," Anna said. It wasn't exactly a lie. She would be okay. Dead was okay. Sam nodded, but he had seen Anna in enough plays to know when she was lying, and he knew her well enough to know why she lied. When he lied, it was for the same reason: to protect her from that which she could not handle.

Maybe she hadn't asked the right or enough questions because she hadn't wanted to know the answers.

He had begun to suspect that while he had an obvious aptitude for math, he was not particularly inspired by it.

I believe when it is convenient for me to believe.

probably going to fail and then I'll probably end up just like my mother." She stands up from

If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

He wanted me to believe in something. I believe in plenty of things, I thought with a bitter smile. I believed that I was going to die tomorrow.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.