Quotes About Doubt

What am I doing here? Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia

black? She was beginning to think that she might be able

we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty

For most people, the unknown is one of the major causes of feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

G C Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.

Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.

In life, we accept naturally the full reality of what we see and feel in general with no shadow of a doubt. Philosophy, however, does not accept what life believes, and strives to convert reality into a problem. Thus, rather than making life easy for living by living in accord with life, philosophy complicates it by replacing the world's tranquillity with the restlessness of problems.

Be cautious whom you trust. — Don't easily trust anyone on this earth because there are all kinds.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

When we were fighting the war we were told that we were doing right, but that we have lost it, we are told that we have been doing wrong. We are wanting to know why.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought, reacted, behaved. I came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic. So I stopped kidding myself. I don't often participate in my religion but I know somewhere... deep inside... I'm still on the team.

We'll never truly be happy or safe, never. Never, ever.

We are not always right about what we think will save us.

With every girl there was a moment before you broke up when you knew - you just knew - that if you left her right then, you would never make up.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

At the moment I have very little evidence and lots of theories. I'm itching to reverse the proportions.

Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness