Quotes About Doubt

to say nothing through fear that taking the matter up would be yielding to temptation would itself be to yield to temptation.

The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

A certain nobility is implicit in saying what I don't believe and hoping you believe it.)

You can be your own biggest enemy or your own greatest ally.

A palace of doubt is senseless, The chambers have no light.

The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine?

Sunbeams out of the clouds Faith out of all my doubt.

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear.

If you believe in your heart, and do not doubt in your mind.

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

Certum est, quia impossible est.

I believe because it is absurd.

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.

The warrior knows that the world is not what it appears to be, and therefore does not make the mistake of assuming anything to be merely a logical necessity.

The mistake of man is that he always seeks explanations which uphold his view of the world.

Wert thou to open the heart of a single soul by helping him to embrace the Cause of Him Whom God shall make manifest, thine inmost being would be filled with the inspirations of that august Name. It devolveth upon you, therefore, to perform this task in the Days of Resurrection, inasmuch as most people are helpless, and wert thou to open their hearts and dispel their doubts, they would gain admittance into the Faith of God.

There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

For a man of the type of Pompeius, who for want of faith in himself and in his star timidly clung in public life to formal right, and with whom the pretext was nearly of as much importance as the motive, this circumstance was of serious weight.

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.