Quotes About Doubt

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

Una fe insensata en la autoridad es el peor enemigo de la verdad.

El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!!!

The priest knows only one great danger: that is science

Our faith was a flickering flame.

I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars.

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.

you can only have faith that what you are doing is the right thing.

there can, we think, be little doubt of the proposition, that the external organs may, from various causes, become so much deranged as to make false representations to the mind; and that, in such cases, men, in the literal sense, really see the empty and false forms and hear the ideal sounds which, in a more primitive state of society, are naturally enough referred to the action of demons or disembodied spirits.

he at no time thought himself out of the Black Douglas's reach, any more than the good Christian supposes himself out of reach of the wiles of the devil; while every new temptation, instead of confirming his hope, seems to announce that the immediate retreat of the Evil One will be followed by some new attack yet more cunningly devised.

Nay, we are authorized to believe that individuals have died in consequence of having supposed themselves to have taken poison, when, in reality, the draught they had swallowed as such was of an innoxious or restorative quality.

You see, one day God showed me something very important. He let me know that my bitterness and blaming myself for so many things was of my own doing. He showed me that I could shed all my doubts and hurts from the past, God can do that for you too. He wants you to be happy, and if you'll only trust Him, He can work a miracle in your life, just as He did mine.

Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.

Truth is absolute and for all time. But one man cannot envisage all of truth; the best he can do is see one aspect of it whole. That is why I say to you, be a skeptic, Hodge. Always be the skeptic.

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. This may sound like hocus-pocus, but I prefer to think of it as emptying my mind and entering the heart of mystery.

De la duda ha salido el temor a tu grandeza, el temor a la desaprobación, al fracaso, a la intimidad e incluso al éxito.

While I'm being introduced as a speaker about to take the microphone, I repeat this line from A Course in Miracles to myself: "If you knew who walked beside you at all times on this path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

De verdad tenía miedo de herir sus sentimientos? ¿O le tenía miedo a ella?

By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human lot--of knowing what or how to pray. Lying awake at night, I could feel myself being changed--into what, I had no idea.

I do not believe in god, but I miss him.

Christians have many good reasons for hope. Optimism is another matter. Optimism assumes that, sooner or later, things will naturally turn out for the better. Hope has no such illusions. That