Quotes About Doubt

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.

The old poets knew all along: the wilderness has an awful tongue, which teaches doubt.

I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

We want to have certainties and no doubts--results and no experiments--without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.

Good advice" is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little effect......

We cannot be resolved of any doubt save by experiment

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Thus, even in our day the unity of consciousness is still a doubtful affair; it can too easily be disrupted. An ability to control one's emotions that may be very desirable from one point of view would be a questionable accomplishment from another, for it would deprive social intercourse of variety, color, and warmth.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively refuse to try the way that leads through darkness and obscurity. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness.

could moreover have assured himself beyond all doubt on this point had he taken counsel with his own omniscience.

Doubt is the crown of life and all certainty is merely one-sided. For in uncertainty and doubt, truth and error come together. Doubt is life. When you are in doubt you have the greatest opportunity to unite the dark and the light sides of life.

You've ridden a little?" "Quite a bit, actually," she said. He gave her a paternalistic smile. "We'll see," he said.

Then to her: "Don't get me wrong. I admire your guts coming here tonight. That shows me something. But I've got a question for you." "What?" "Who is going to protect these people now?" he asked. "You?" He said it with incredulity. She felt her face flush hot again, and she sipped the glass of wine for something to do.

any more about it?" Joe asked.

Mallory's breath shuddered. "Oh, Claire. Does happily ever after even exist anymore?

let suspicion

Once I did believe the world could be perfected. I don't think that any more. But I believe I've defended the bad side against the worst.

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

So, which of the two men do you think is telling the truth?" Sebastian asked, his gaze on her profile. "Van der Pals? Or Vescovi?" She shook her head, "I'm not convinced either of them is. Although if I had to put money on one or the other, I'd pick the Italian harpist over the decorative Dutch courtier any day.

We like to believe the world arcs towards justice--I suppose because it reassures us and makes us think there's some sort of order to our existence. but what if we're wrong? What if it's All meaningless chaos and chance?

Czy zawsze musisz zobaczy?, ?eby uwierzy??

I never much cared for religion. I don't think God does, either.