Quotes About Doubt

How? How will it be fine?" He looked over at me. "This car is very light and we're going to drive very fast.

you would think I was cruel, so I hesitated." "You are cruel." "Yes, but it doesn't mean I want you to think I am.

She looked left. She looked right. She looked confused.

Some part of me is still convinced it's a fluke and eventually it will be ripped away from me. Deep down I expect it. Any hint of it and I roll down the cliff.

I don't know a room suitable to a woman I asked to marry me and who replied with 'maybe.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith. ? Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

many things must remain uncertain, and many a question insoluble, because what we know of nature is by no means sufficient, in all cases, to explain what has to be explained.

Triviality and certainty are Kinderkrankheiten of knowledge.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. – Voltaire

Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?

Doubts can lead to deeper faith by forcing us to look more closely at what we believe. And why.

Faith is a funny thing. It's easy to believe while life is rolling merrily along. But in times of trial, it's tempting to turn away from God. Yet that's when we need him the most.

I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible. That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me.

Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit.

Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.

As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.

Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be 'true in a way'. I trust this passing reflection will not lead anyone to doubt the truth of any part of this story! When I come to describe my life with Clement Makin credulity will be strained but will I hope not fail!

I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.

If I see her she may kill hope.

We did really love each other . . . didn't we? Didn't we? In the name of that reality — M.

I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. Also I wanted to lay quickly to rest the terrible suspicion that where I found Hugo now I would also find Anna. This idea didn't bear thinking about and so I didn't think about it.