Quotes About Doubt

In a religious community, the village atheist keeps his doubts to himself.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

The public… demands certainties…. But there are no certainties.

Parents are never sure that they have done the right thing. They can only do what they think is right.

Why do I prefer insurance to the invisible guarantees of existence?

To make up for all I have forgotten, there is this that I have acquired, and I call it sophistication since it is not quite the same thing as learning. It is the flexible armour of doubt in an age when too many people are certain.

I am broken and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again.

Sometimes I feel like I quit me...

The most confused you will ever get, is when you try to convince yourself of something your mind knows is a lie.

Sometimes I feel like that I don't really know the person next to me.

It might have been." I was also afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

It might have been." I too was also afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

It might have been." I was afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

I'm convinced that most people don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe.

It might have been." I too was afraid of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

I'm convinced that most people don't know what the hell they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe.

Just in case you are doubting yourself today. You're wonderful. You're loved. You matter. You deserve to be happy.

Those who say that they know what kind of art they like, or what kind of god, or what kind of moral structure are saying that they like what kind of art, god, structure they know, that is that which makes them feel more comfortable. Being pried free of spiritual constraint is the gift doubt brings. The suppression of doubt ensures that we are left with a partial truth, a one-sided value, a prejudicial narrowing of the richness that life has to bring.

democracy flourishes when we express our doubts over a policy, over the motives of our leaders. Compare this with those who flee troubling ambiguity by wrapping themselves and their vehicles in flags, drown honest debate with chauvinistic clamor, and encourage a pseudo-patriotism that ill serves its nation by silencing serious dialogue that might lead to more refined judgment.

Doubt is a form of radical relationship to and respect for mystery. The absence of doubt is a very scary thing. What that leads to is psychological, political, economic, spiritual fundamentalism. It leads to rigidity. It leads to a profound defense of the ego's security needs above all things [...] The absence of doubt ultimately leads to a violation of the mystery itself.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...

His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a splendour that in those moments the world perished about his feet as if it had been fireconsumed: and thereafter his tongue grew heavy and he met the eyes of others with unanswering eyes for he felt that the spirit of beauty had folded him round like a mantle and that in revery at leas he had been acquainted with nobility.