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Quotes About Doubt

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.
~ Nachman of Breslov
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.
~ Pico Iyer
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
~ Seneca the Younger
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
~ Simone Weil
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.
~ David Suchet
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
~ Frances Farmer
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
~ Ai Weiwei
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
~ Albert Camus
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
~ Albert Camus
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
~ Benjamin Franklin
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
~ Billy Joel
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
~ Blaise Pascal
Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.
~ Brian Keene
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.
~ Christopher Hampton
It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath
~ David Eddings
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
~ Diogenes Laertius
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'
~ Douglas Adams
To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.
~ Drew Barrymore