Quotes About Doubt

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell, But they never farmed, so how can they tell?

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

God seems to have the receiver off the hook.

I am afraid I shall not find Him, but I shall still look for Him. If He exists, He may be appreciative of my efforts.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

As actors, you live in doubt; that's one of the truths of the particular job.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.