Quotes About Doubt

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

Being right does not always bring satisfaction

As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.

Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.

It would be easier," Doob said, "if I could figure out what the hell she wanted." "You're assuming," Luisa said, "that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

Cord followed up with, "I like it here, but it's beginning to feel creepy. Does anyone else think it's creepy?" "You're talking to a bunch of guys," Yul said. "No one here is going to validate your feelings." She tossed sand at him.

Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be.

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

The rule of thumb we've been using is that Deolaters are welcome as long as they're not certain they're right," I said. "As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.

He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.

Well, I am not fully convinced that I really need this," Randy says. "We all need to decide that question for ourselves," says Avi.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

As with all gut feelings, only time will tell whether this it is pathetic self-delusion.