Quotes About Doubt

Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see the liver determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul.

On vjeruje u ne-Boga i klanja mu se, rekao je jedan moj kolega o studentu koji je ispoljavao plemeniti ateisti?ki žar.

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.

Really? That's what it stems from, is it? You've got it all sorted out, have you? Faith is stupidity, is it?

Yeah but," Collingswood said cautiously. "Only, it's not totally admirable, is it, given that it's total fucking bollocks." They stared some more. "Well," Vardy said. "That is true. I would have to concede that, unfortunately." Neither of them laughed, but they could have done.

I wanted to do a book that was extremely suspicious of storytelling... it ("Embassytown") is very skeptical of the liberating potential of narrative. [I present] the idea that narrative may just as well be a shackle as [well] as a key.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't. That's why he understands the nutters. That's why he hunts them. He misses pure faith. He's jealous.

You told all this to the people in the town," he said. "They said they can't do anything because of no proof.

Deep doubts… deep wisdom; small doubts… little wisdom."

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

The project often feels like a failure in the middle. But if the team persists through this valley of angst and doubt, it eventually emerges with a growing sense of momentum. Team members begin to test out their new designs, and they realize the improvements they've made, and they keep tweaking the design to make it better. And they come to realize, we've cracked this problem. That's when the team reaches the peak of confidence.

The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

I was forced to face the truth. Ram no longer cared for me. Or if he did, it was pushed deep down inside him, suffocated by kingship. And since the children came from my body and were subject to the same gossip and doubts, he couldn't afford to care for them either.

Give me strength to do the right thing, I whispered, though to whom I don't know. I didn't put much trust in the gods.

They felt that it was overwhelming evidence for something, that it proved something beyond any reasonable doubt, but they were not sure what.

Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.

Trust No One.

Philosophical systems have a habit of collapsing under the scrutiny of the next malcontent to come along.

Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.

He wouldn't give up, but if i am strict and force myself now to decide upon the precise moment in this whole story when my heart irreparably broke, it was the moment when I saw the weariness and the doubt creep into my son's small muscles as his fingers slipped, for the tenth time, from the pale oak lid.

I wouldn't," said Sierra.

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.