Quotes About Doubt

You can know things all you like, but it doesn't mean that you believe them.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

Are you sure the two of you aren't married? (Bavel) Why do you ask? (Ewan) You can barely stand to speak to each other, and yet when the lady walks off you look as if you can already taste her. Smacks of marriage to me. (Bavel)

But tell me truly, milovidnost, had I asked you to elope with me that night, would you not have followed me to the ends of the earth? (Jack) I wouldn't have followed you to the end of the corridor. (Lorelei)

How do you feel?" Phantom asked him as he set his cup aside to pin him with a frown. Christian leaned his head to the right to stretch one of the sore muscles in his neck. "Fit to ride." Phantom scoffed. "Interesting, since you look as if you're only fit to fall over." -Phantom & Christian

Don't trust everything I say.

I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find.

Staring into his dark eyes, she felt the doubts she had nurtured slipping away on a single breath. She reached out to him again, pulling him toward her. Their bodies met, two galaxies subject to the inexorable pull of the universe, both determined to remain connected, if only by a bridge of stars.

Doctor Sharak did not hear from her yesterday. He requested that I rectify that today. I came here at his request, but two hours later, my gut tells me something is wrong. I'm the one you need to satisfy now, which is bad news for you and whoever you work for. I've got five generations of Starfleet brass in my family tree and, unlike Doctor Sharak, I actually know how this game is played.

Absolute certainity might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up

Yeah right. I'll believe you, thousands wouldn't. Want to borrow my mirror?

Don't expect me to be perfect. Despite all my lives, I'm still only human. I can't deliver perfection, and I'll only disappoint you. But I want you to know that you are the most important person to me. I'm trying to protect you. Sometimes I screw things up. I may even tell a white lie every now and then. But you have to give me the benefit of the doubt.

They may think they understand how God works, but if were were able to understand how God works, we wouldn't need faith, now would we?

The Child's eyes flick back and forth between Kat and me. 'You are the Ones?' he asks skeptically. Kat catches my eye. 'OMG, does this mean I get to be a One, too?' she teases me.

Albeit they doubt the achivement, Never can they cease it or take it away from you. For it carries a signal and a description of your tremendous effort...

Voltaire, the French philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment era who lived for many years just a few miles away from where I am writing this book, once said: "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."74

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Irgendwann jedoch mußten die Philosophen sich einer schlich­ten, peinlicherweise unbestreitbaren Tatsache stellen und mit ihr fertigwerden: Nicht eine der Fragen, die zweieinhalb Jahr­ tausende lang die europäische Philosophie lebendig erhalten haben, ist je zur allgemeinen Zufriedenheit gelöst worden - sie alle sind noch immer umstritten oder wurden per Dekret der Philosophen für hinfällig erklärt.

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.

There's no end to suspicion once you get going.