Quotes About Doubt

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don't be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don't have a say in the matter? Suppose we're hardwired to trust—to believe in—our instincts, regardless of whether they're right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.

Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

and listened to one of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career that spanned about as many books, solved one major murder after another and yet his bosses still doubted his skill and integrity, regularly undermined his work, and repeatedly investigated him for misconduct. It frustrated her even more than it did him. His problem, she thought, was that he didn't know how to play politics.

I'm not sure whether I'm losing my grip on reality," he said. "Or if reality is losing its grip on us.

I'm not going to do that," she said. "With my luck, the deputy that comes will be one of the assholes who did this or, at the very least, someone who sympathizes with them.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!

Science and faith are not at war. When scientific evidence and biblical teaching are correctly interpreted, they can and do support each other. I'd say to anyone who doubts that: investigate the evidence yourself.

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

Oh God, you make the ones like Brother James who never question, and you make the ones like Esau who never believe, and why do you have to make the in-between ones like me? But

In every journey, there comes a point, around three quarters of the way through, when the traveller, without a guide, can go no further. But not everyone finds a guide. Not everyone accepts a guide. Not everyone is convinced. Many would rather keep fumbling on their own, trying and trying again. They would rather risk not completing the journey, they would rather risk getting lost or content themselves with the advance already made, than follow in trust.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.