Quotes About Doubt

He rather hated hope. `Une immense espérance a traversé la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:`---and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.

I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilization.

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so.

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

Without faith, people perish, and they are perishing before our eyes

Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see ? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all?

Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure?

Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist.

Or is it because he believes that God himself is present here at the corner of Elysian Fields and Bons Enfants?

That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

Faith doesn't give warranties.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes – but is that all?

Worse and worse...Can't you stand it? Are you retreating? Is this hour with the living too dead for you?

Olykor aziránt is, akit szeretek, haraggal telek el, mert félek, hogy nem viszonozza áradó szerelmem, De már úgy hiszem, nincs többé viszonzatlan szerelem, így, vagy amúgy megtérül, (Valamikor lángolón szerettem valakit, és nem viszonozta szerelmem, EbbÅ'l Írtam mégis e dalokat.)

El camino propio de quien teme llegar a la meta traza fácilmente un laberinto

Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

I think my blunt and contrary nature helps my science, because I don't simply accept things just because other people believe it

fifty-fifty on believing

And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.

One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.

was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about things that did not perfectly suit him. As happened when Amelio had asked him what role he wanted to