Quotes About Doubt

Ever have a day when you wonder what, if anything, is worth doing? Forget about doing anything well: I'm talking about simply meeting basic standards.

Trust what feels true even if that truth requires you to ignore what you know.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

He thought that Abraham would never become a Christian once he had seen the Papal Court; but, since it was useless, he gave up trying to dissuade him.

ElocvenÈ›a, când nu e declamaÈ›ie de împrumut, e prisos de evlavie; aÈ™a c?, într-o epoc? de necredin??, elocvenÈ›a nu-È™i g?seÈ™te loc.

Mas quem recolheu mais votos foi Estaline. Estaline, está a entender? Foi aí que eu compreendi que a Rússia nunca se tornaria um país como os outros. Não que houvesse alguma verdadeira dúvida.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

You know what the hardest thing is?" Phoebe said, as the first pair of fireworks went up. "The hardest thing is to know everything you know so far and still have faith.

It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

This had occurred to me. But for no reason I can dignify with anything higher than the authority of a two-hundred-year-old gut I didn't buy it. "It's possible," I said. "Of course it's possible." "But you don't think so" "No. I'm not sure why." Another silence, her intelligence working. Then a very slight smile. "It's because it would be less romantic," she said.

You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.

I wondered when exactly I had exchanged my conscience for fearful obedience.

I only have one fear in doing all of this," he said, which is "that people will see these documents and shrug, that they'll say, 'we assumed this was happening and don't care.' The only thing I'm worried about is that I'll do all this to my life for nothing.

I'm suddenly beginning to wonder if all this war is worth it.

Each and every airline is left to decide what is best for our children's safety, and the result should leave the public in no doubt that safety is not the main priority of many airlines. If it was, every child would have a safe and secure seat.

sometimes looking for the gold at the end of the rainbow, is like looking for the good in people

I had retreated to reporting because I doubted the reality of my inner voice

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it -- probably like a bowl of melting ice cream or a dish of Jell-o just before it sets.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.