Quotes About Doubt

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.

the soul is never as strong as it believes itself, nor ever as weak as it fears.

He had told himself that it was an act of courage to let her go, to give her the final decision. Courage and sacrifice. He no longer believed that. There was no sacrifice made in being abandoned. There was no courage in doing nothing.

When the time for action comes, all doubts must be discarded.

Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness?

I advised you to not look for hope from your leaders, for they shall feed you naught but lies. Yet hope exists. Seek for it, Brys Beddict, in the one who stands at your side, from the stranger upon the other side of the street. Be brave enough to endeavour to cross that street. Look neither skyward nor upon the ground. Hope persists, and its voice is compassion, and honest doubt.

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free.

Skintick could not find himself in that future. He did not expect to complete this journey. He was not sure he even wanted to.

Everything worth fighting for is gained without fighting. Every struggle is a struggle against doubt. Honour is not a thing to be chased, for it, as with all other forces of life, is in fact impelled, streaking straight for you. The moment of collision is where the truth of you is revealed.

I pray that doubt comes to you, that it tempers you with its wisdom. Those heroes in our legends, Karsa Orlong, they were terrible, they were monsters, for they were strangers to uncertainty

It's a poor scholar who trusts anyone's judgement. Even and perhaps especially his own.

Udinaas had known many for whom certainty was a god, the only god, no matter the cast of its features. And he had seen the manner in which such belief made the world simple, where all was divisible by the sharp cleaving of cold judgement, after which no mending was possible. He had seen such certainty, yet had never shared it.

In a war between fanatics and skeptics, the fanatics win every time.

It is my feeling,' she said, haltingly, 'that a faith that delivers perfect answers to every question is not a true faith, for its only purpose is to satisfy, to ease the mind and so end its questing.

Hope persists, and its voice is compassion, and honest doubt.

Lo que sabía Tool de los detalles había suscitado en Toc muchas preguntas pero ninguna duda.

I do not want certainty. In fact, certainty is the one thing I fear the most.

There is no way to tell which version of a lie is the truth.

That was you?" "Well, it wasn't Sailor Moon.