Quotes About Doubt

The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

It's a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

The moment a man and a woman decide to get married, both of them should put aside such doubts and concerns. If they can't agree, it is best not to opt for trouble from the very beginning.

speranÅ£ele aveau s? moar? otr?vite de îndoielile lui.

The pleasure of deceiving would fade to a shadow before the anxiety of being deceived.

as far as tomorrow is concerned, even the weather report isn't very reliable, you know.

I could make nothing of the terribly vague answers I got, which I could believe or doubt as I liked.

There was no way to actually confirm that his body existed as a body. His cognitive abilities may have convinced him that it did, but there was always the possibility that reality was empty.

Unsichere Fragen und ungeeignetster Augenblick, sie zu stellen!

Lady, the Faith is here," he stated. "But we must build churches in our hearts, for surely those built in the world have all betrayed us.

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.

Descartes's argument turns out to be a reworking of Anselm's Ontological Proof. When we doubt, the limitations and finite nature of the ego are revealed. Yet we could not arrive at the idea of "imperfection" if we did not have a prior conception of "perfection." Like Anselm, Descartes concluded that a perfection that did not exist would be a contradiction in terms.

people are finding that in their dramatically transformed circumstances, the old forms of faith no longer work for them: they cannot provide the enlightenment and consolation that human beings seem to need.

The philosopher Karl Popper (1902–94) often remarked "We don't know anything" and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.16

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.1

Fundamentalist faith was rooted in deep fear and anxiety that could not be assuaged by a purely rational argument.

If there's one thing you taught me, it's to never trust an answer that's actually another question.

Nonsense. One day, the right man will come along, and you'll change your mind." Harriet wasn't so sure. In all her twenty-four years, she'd never met a single man who had managed to make her feel anything more than acute irritation.

They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined

Incredulous, Marcus just looked at him. 'Are you kidding me? You have stormed enemy bunkers with bullets flying all over the damn place.' Marcus should know - he'd been shoulder-to-shoulder with Diesel every time. 'Are you seriously trying to tell me you're scared of women stuff? What the hell, Diesel? Just . . . what the hell?

It's hard to send someone to their death," she said, answering his silent question. His expression was hidden behind the visor of his helmet. She didn't need to call on any of her abilities as a Jedi to know what he was thinking: one day she would do the same to men like him. The realization caught her unawares. "You'll get used to it," he said. She doubted it.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

Fear knocked and faith answered.