Quotes About Doubt

It's like I've had a stroke. Do you think I've had a stroke? I don't think you've had a stroke. But how do you know? How can you be sure I haven't had a stroke? What are the symptoms of a stroke? I don't know. Look them up. Look them up on line. OK. Hold on...OK. Here it is. Do you have trouble speaking? I have trouble speaking intelligently.

and I must be allowed to say of both, I hope without breach of Charity, that they heard Voices that never spake, and saw Sights that never appear'd;

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

You know, despite all my world-weariness and cynicism, I think I've always believed that there is one person in the universe for whom you are truly meant - and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.

If there were any seeds of doubt in my mind as to whether I really loved Adam or just some image of Adam, they were all killed by the frost that was tonight's dinner party. No, wait, that sounds like it was some cold, deadly evening. I mean the opposite. I guess I mean that if the flower of my love for Adam wass being stunted by any feelings of doubt, then tonight fully fertilized my seed and allowed it to grow. That works if you don't think about the face that fertilizer is made if shit.

Maybe, Gwen said, instead of yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

But illusions die hard, and the brighter they are the longer they take adying.

Inspiring all Holmes's championship of free expression was his seeking spirit, his doubt that he or anyone had an avenue to the absolute. The great act of faith, he wrote to his friend William James (who hardly needed the advice), is when man decides that he is not God. On his ninetieth birthday he was still reminding young men that his discovery I was not God was his secret of success.

As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.

I wanted to know the truth, and yet I was afraid of what I might learn.

And I waited, as a blasphemer waits for lightning. I looked away.

And they talked about politics and art and God. I never before heard anyone say that there might not be a God. That frightened me, because for the first time I began to think about what God means. Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Cada passo em frente era um cuidado. Em que ponto o chão cederia e me afundaria em ansiedade?

Sometimes I wonder: Do I want to gel well? Is all this fear, all this shit I'm going through now worth it? Or should I bury myself back here in the brain and forget about it?" "What's your answer?" "I don't know.

I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.

The root cause of superstition is lack of self-confidence.

As Americans, there are very few things we have confidence in.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a mustache.

I struggled with my confidence a lot.

This is a day of little faith – of few convictions – a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

Uncertainly always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.