Quotes About Doubt

You say you're sure ? Sure that you're in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either – Don Marquis ("ghosts")

In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you're the one who denies it, doesn't that make you the one most likely wrong?

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he'd thought was perfect was now giving false results because of an unpredictable variable.

You mean you're wondering if he took advantage of his wife's absence to invite over multiple lovers? What a Casanova!' Ikai slapped his knee. 'But I'd have to say, I really doubt it. Mashiba might've been a chain-smoker, but he wasn't the type to smoke two cigarettes at once.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

I am filled with a certain kind of doubt about my role in the world. But that does not stop me from participating in the world. It only keeps me from expecting something from the world. It

Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?

I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

We begin to worry about worry and fear fear itself. We panic and then panic that we might, once again, experience panic.

A man who tells you he's no fool has his suspicions.

A guilty man runs when no one's chasin' him.

Suspicion aint' proof.

He was as trustworthy as a bent tuppence.

There's always the certainty that the opposite of what I might believe in might also be true.

With a clever and subtle lie, you were convinced to not exactly stop trusting in God, but to stop trusting exclusively in God. The

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.

It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.

Intellectually he understood perfectly what the problem was: guilt and doubt, the waste products of innocence and faith, inhibited him and filled him with self-loathing even at his own weakness in trying to be free of them.

maybe we can do better than this. And to ask yourself: where's the vulnerable point in this multiple-choice totalitarianism? It seems...seamless. What can an individual do against it?... I suggest that you doubt, disobey, desert. Particularly if you are called upon to fight against those who insist, against all the evidence, that we are one people.

Sometimes, of course, your loved ones genuinely think you would be wasting your time and talents doing something of which they disapprove.

The decision to play it safe, to take the path of least resistance, can seem irresistible, particularly if you have your own doubts and fears about the alternatives.