Quotes About Doubt

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

What was that education? Question everything, but keep your word. Doubt everything, but never give others a reason to doubt you.

You're a strange kind of boy," said Achilles. "I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission," said Suriyawong. "But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

I'll obey you now, said Runnel. Brick laughed. Except when you think I'm wrong.

Só descredo no incrível." I only disbelieve the unbelievable.

La semilla de la duda estaba ahí, y permaneció, y de vez en cuando echaba una pequeña raíz. Esa semilla que crecía lo cambió todo. Hizo que Ender prestara más atención a lo que la gente quería decir, no a lo que decía. Le hizo más sabio.

Why don't you speak to me, O Gods! she cried out

A speaking, a crisis, people's lives in tatters, the future of the colony in doubt. And I cry in relief because an overblown computer program is speaking to me again

Anton: "You're asking me?" Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.

Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus, but dared not ask for fear the answer would lead to the end of the annual largesse of Christmas.

He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science." "In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.

don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope

we got the judges to agree that the prosecution had to prove beyond doubt that Ender would have won the war without the training we gave him. After that, it was simple. The exigencies of war.

If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?

Mama Squirrel laughed out loud and shook her head. "I swear I don't know why Margaret Larner would marry such a one as you." "It was an act of faith," said Alvin.

You're a strange kind of boy, said Achilles. I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission, said Suriyawong. But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.

O Sehnor e descrente?' You're an unbeliever? 'So descredo no increivel.' I only disbelieve the unbelievable.

Even if that's just bullshit, sir, it's first-rate bullshit.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Perhaps someday, confronted by the consequences of your own actions, you might change, but I doubt it. Few who are captured by such a powerful story are ever able to win free of it.

Perhaps that was why she was sure she had to go to Vigor Church and on to where Alvin was. Because fear told her to stay, but hope told her to go.

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.