Quotes About Doubt

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

No free man needs a God; but was I free?

It isn't possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.

Wildly, I pursued the shadow of her infidelity; but the scent I travelled upon was so slight as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman's fancy.

But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need.

Oh, to shout it so that all of you believe me at last, you cruel, smug people...

Something was destroyed forever [...], everything would henceforward be tainted with a poisonous flavour of doubt

Numbers are disputable and uninspiring

the world to think and, while doing so, to increase his tension and doubt, while after success he won't be able to resist the temptation to analyze how to repeat it.

He told me one day that he was being followed by a lurking suspicion.

Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.

She slanted him a wary look. "Are you just trying to make me feel good? If so, don't bother." "If I was trying to make you feel good, believe me, you wouldn't have to ask. You'd know.

You can trust me." "Trust you? I hardly know you." The protect sounded weak, despite the force with which she pushed it past her lips. "You really want me to believe you feel that way? Because I've been trying to convince myself that's how I feel about you, and it's not working. Not one damned bit.

I walked away once," he snarled. "God help us both, I don't think I can ever do it again.

What else would they be?" "No idea." Arik shrugged … "Aliens, mabye?" "Aliens." Thanatos's voice was flat, disbelieving. "Your scepticism is funny, coming from one of the Four fucking Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

I wasn't sure if I liked him or not, but he sure had me interested in finding out.

As far as I can see, nobody's got The Truth, The Answer, or The God.

But what made John Lennon different from all but a few superstars was not just his willingness, but his insistence on sharing his life with others. He shared the moments of doubt, pain, humiliation, and discovery -in all their glory and pathos- with his fans through his songs.

American actors, historical, familial, political, theatrical, move blindly ahead toward a future that never is, and never can be, clear.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

DON'T MISS THIS. Peter and his prayer-meeting friends seem to have had absolutely no expectation that God would really answer their prayers. Their doubts were so great that when God did answer, they didn't believe it. They had exactly the kind of faith that many of us have been told God won't honor. But he did.

Inner peace and a clear conscience can't always be trusted.

Thomas in John 20:28, "my Lord and my God," must be read in the larger context of GJohn, including the statement by the risen Jesus just a bit earlier in the narrative that he ascends to "my Father and your Father, to my God and your God" (20:17 NRSV).