Quotes About Doubt

Those who blindly trust cannot be enlightened.

There is nothing more terrifying than those who are certain that what they believe is undeniably true.

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind could readily fathom it. Better, perhaps, to die in doubt, knowing there was some revelation still unfound, than to pursue and possess such a wretched certainty.

That's half of your trouble, muttered the crocodile. You believe everything's true. That's because everything is, replied Mr. Bacchus.

Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.

Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.

Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.

He told me he loved me, Clem.' Oh Lord.' 'And I believed him.' 'How many dozens of men have told you that?' 'Yes, but he was different 'Famous last words.

Avevo letto da qualche parte la parola 'nichilismo' e a scuola chiesi al mio insegnante di inglese cosa significasse. Significa non credere in niente mi rispose, e subito seppi di aver trovato un nome per il mio stato d'animo. Non era solo mancanza di qualcosa in cui credere, era non credere, di fatto, in niente.

Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass. — CORA

Plenty of boys had talked of the secret graveyard before, but as it had ever been with Nickel, no one believed them until someone else said it.

She has always considered herself an atheist, not realizing she had a religion.

At the end of the day when she propped him up and told him he could do it, he puzzled over these alien things she offered him. Kindness and faith, he didn't know which box to put them in.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

Some days Carney felt the need to press his cousin on a lie until it broke and some days his love was such that the slightest quiver of mistrust made him ashamed.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.

A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

my daughter at about six years of age asked me the question, "Why do we speak of the good Lord?" Whereupon I said, "Some weeks ago, you were suffering from measles, and then the good Lord sent you full recovery." However, the little girl was not content; she retorted, "Well, but please, Daddy, do not forget: in the first place, he had sent me the measles.