Quotes About Doubt

It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.

Since I do not believe in so many things, it is not difficult for me to disbelieve in the Fall as well, so that I am entirely convinced I will be telling the truth to the people.

A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.

three ships lost in the same sector in the same year can't be accident, and

Siempre han confiado en la autoridad o en el pasado, nunca en sí mismos. Sus

He would have to ask questions constantly, take nothing for granted. There would be so many opportunities to miss the obvious, so many chances to misunderstand, so many ways of taking the wrong path.

If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.

I hope I am not of subnormal intelligence

Öylesine gülünç olacaks?n?z ki herkes bir hiç olduÄŸunuza inanacak. Bunun da tek amac? hayat?n?z? korumak... Gerçekten yaÅŸanmaya deÄŸer olup olmad??? ÅŸüpheli olan hayat?n?z?...

She said, "I was just guessing." He said, "No, you weren't. Whatever it was, it wasn't just guessing.

He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

nada tenía que ser verdadero, pero que todo debía parecerlo.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

What concrete steps can I take now? I asked the voice, and it replied: Go to a house of prayer and pray. Without faith? I countered, and the voice said: You have more faith than you know.

There are moments of faith, interspersed with times when the smoke & flames of burning children blot out our faith... although it flickers again. The difference between the skeptic & the believer is the frequency of faith and not the certitude of one's position.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

The girl you were died; the potion of death was what all of us women swallow sooner or later. Have you noticed how at puberty the Amazon-like energy we are born with fades and we turn into doubt-filled creatures with clipped wings? The woman left trapped in the silo is also you, a prisoner of the restrictions of adult life. The female condition is a disgrace, Isabel, it's like having rocks tied to your ankles so you can't fly.

A veces se preguntaba si los indios no estaban mejor antes, cuando eran dueños de California y vivían a su manera, con sus costumbres y sus dioses, pero enseguida se persignaba y pedía perdón a Dios por tamaña herejía. «¡Adónde vamos a parar si yo mismo dudo del cristianismo!», suspiraba, arrepentido.

El problema con nosotros es que ella me da por sentado, mientras que yo vivo pensando en que ella se puede ir con otro», pensó.

Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.

I have not succeeded in completely shaking free of religion, and when I'm faced with any difficulty, the first thing that occurs to me is to pray, just in case, which is what all Chileans do, even atheists . . . forgive me, agnostics.