Quotes About Doubt

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.

In my experience, many Americans think of religion as important and want to do whatever they can to support it. But if you ask them what they themselves believe, you'll find they're very uncertain about their religious beliefs. They don't actually accept the theology of their official church.

There have been times when our career is uncertain, the film industry can be beautiful and judgmental at the same time. There are times when I thought of staying back and giving up.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.

They will conquer but they will not convince.