Quotes About Doubt

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.

No scientific theory can claim absolutely certainty.

To have faith is to refuse to doubt. The phrase "not doubt" is not intended to describe an especially strong faith, a faith strong enough to see miracles, as opposed to a weak faith that is haunted by doubt and cannot see miracles. Rather, eschewing doubt is the very definition of faith; a faith willing to ask for miracles, however tentatively, is the faith that will one day see miracles.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

Some gods deserve atheists.

Knowing too much about a subject can make us overly cautious. Having a lot of conventional wisdom may make us doubt our own hunches and intuition because we're more likely to think that any seemingly good ideas that pop into our heads are wrong if they don't square with what we've previously learned.

Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.

Don't believe everything you read.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

The experience of living in this modernized world has, indeed, shaken many of the assumptions upon which belief rests. It does so most often in indirect ways. It is more the psychology of our times that undermines Christian belief than it is, say, the arguments against it mounted by the new atheists

A veces, en medio del dolor, llegamos a dudar de la realidad de lo que hemos vivido.

Es tan tentador no creerse las versiones oficiales…

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

V: You were everything to me, Stanley. Everything. S: You still love me? V: It's like a big stone in the road. S: And all those others? V: You know the way a bat bounces sounds off objects to find out where it is?

But God – I mean, even if there is a God – reaching out to him… Who would know where to start?" "You don't have to start," he answered. "God has already started. He is already reaching out to you. That's why he became a person.

She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.

Where a woman's faith in herself ends; so too does her joy.

The church that worships will have many visitors who never come back, and a few who cannot stay away. Perhaps

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.