Quotes About Doubt

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

Don't believe everything you think.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Begin with disbelief. Analyse, test, prove everything, and then take it.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Nothing the night said about the morning turned out to be true.

I don't believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.

You have to plant doubt […] It's like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That's what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

The people who are suspicious of certain things are the very ones who are the most capable of doing that of which they are suspicious.