Quotes About Doubt

During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: "there is no god west of Salina.

Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

That Nick is a nice boy." I eyed her. "He doesn't like me." "Really? Are you trying to convince yourself or me? Because I found him pressing a bandage to your head while you were passed out drooling on the couch.

Do you like me? You know, like me like me?" I cringe the moment I ask and cover my face with my hands. The smell of blood and trail dirt wafts into my nose. Something sinks inside me. What is it? Oh, I know, any dignity I could possibly have left.

Maybe he wants you to be his queen," Devyn saids. "Continue the line." "That's crap," Nick says. "Yeah." I glare at him. "Why would anyone want me to be their queen?" "That's not what I meant." The front legs of Nick's chair slam back down.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.

A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.

You like me?" I repeat, because, well, I want to be really, really sure that I heard him right. This is not the sort of thing you want to get wrong. He nods and says, "Very much." "You like me very much?" He lets go of my hands and touches my check. "Too much." "Too much?" Trying to keep my voice calm, I say, "No such thing.

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

We have a choice to make when trouble comes. We can reach out to God and look to Him for strength and help, or we can doubt His love and purpose and allow our hearts to grow cold. It takes faith to believe that He can and will bring good out of those trials if we will only trust Him.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Criminals are free and make choices. Responsibility accrues and repentance is required. Among Dostoevsky's many complaints against socialism . . . was its promise to replace this radical freedom with material and mental security. Hence one of Dostoevsky's great paradoxes: the healthy, free mind demands continual destabilization and doubt if it is to exercise acts of faith, but our deeds are stable, answerable, and belong to us alone.

There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent.

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

There is a commonplace book argument, Which glibly glides from every vulgar tongue When any dare a new light to present: 'If you are right, then everybody's wrong.' Suppose the converse of this precedent So often urged, so loudly and so long: 'If you are wrong, then everybody's right.' Was ever everybody yet so quite?

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.

It is said that God the Creator is all-knowing. But if that were true, He would have known better.