Quotes About Doubt

Ain't all that simple," he said. "It's everything I been brought up to be. Can't all be bullshit, can it?" Rydell, glancing over at him, took pity. "Naw," he said, "I guess it wouldn't have to be, necessarily, all of it, but it's just—" "What they bring you all up to be, Berry?" Rydell had to think about it. "Republican," he said, finally.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

We think we know . Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

Quizá haya una bestia… quizá solo estemos nosotros

The trouble is: Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?" " 'Course there aren't." "Why not?" "'Cos things wouldn't make sense. Houses an' streets, an'—TV—they wouldn't work.

Nereye gideceÄŸimizi belki biliyorlar, belki de bilmiyorlard?. Ama nerede olduÄŸumuzu bilmiyorlar; çünkü biz gideceÄŸimiz yere varamad?k.

Talvez", disse ele, hesitante, "talvez exista um monstro".[...] "Não sei", Seu coração batia forte e quase o sufocava. "Mas..." [...] "Eu queria dizer que... pode ser só a gente.

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

If there's ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong.

No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?

No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?" "No reason," the Spaniard replied. "It's only that I just happened to look back and something's there.

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

LOLA Oh, no. She's probably going out with Turk tonight. DOC    She's too nice a girl to be going out with a guy like Turk. LOLA I don't know why, Daddy. Turk's nice.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

Damn the Absolute!

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth (be it of either kind), we do so with our whole nature, and resolve to stand or fall by the results. The sceptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser, Omniscience only knows.

To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another. One

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.

Between twenty and thirty I gradually became more and more agnostic and irreligious, yet I cannot say that I ever lost that 'indefinite consciousness' which Herbert Spencer describes so well, of an Absolute Reality behind phenomena.

Faith is when you believe something that you know ain't true.

Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.