Quotes About Doubt

truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true. Yeah, well, just because the law says it, it doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought abou it, and decided it made sense. (...) But if it weren't for the law, would you still believe it?

Morrison kept looking to everyone else, probably hoping someone would provide him with an opinion, because he wasn't ready to have one of his own.

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

Do I get paid, too?' 'Yes,' he said without hesitation. This scared me, because Crawley gave money like bulls gave milk: not at all, and you get gored for asking. If he had already decided this was a paying job, it must be horrible beyond words.

He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.

Because believing in nothing is still believing in something—and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.

Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.

I know it's all true, but I can never prove what happens to people I don't know in places I can't see.

The devil you know is better than the one you don't.

did he want her to join him in his mission of ending unworthy scythes? Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.

But the feeling is there, like a wind at your back on the edge of a cliff, gently urging you. What if... What if...

Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.

But then who is he to decide if Dirk truly was soulless? Better to err on the side of grace.

For if my study of human nature has taught me anything, it is that truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

Now he was so deep in his own unsavorism, he wasn't quite sure he wanted to come up for air.

Why must everyone always ask me what I believe in? Why must I believe in anything at all right now? Can't I just have some time to think about it first?

The terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear. -Scythe Goddard

I often wonder if the bright benefit of belief outweighed the darkness it's abuse could bring.

and her all-too-perfect husband, who Rowan suspected might actually be a bot.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?