Quotes About Doubt

So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.

Even if philosophers were in a position to discover truth, who among them would be interested in it? Each knows well that his system is not better founded than the others; but he supports it because it is his.

Doubt with regard to what we ought to know is a condition too violent for the human mind; it cannot long be endured; in spite of itself the mind decides one way or another, and it prefers to be deceived rather than to believe nothing.

aunque estas personas no sepan nada, todas creen saber algo. Mientras que yo, si no sé nada, al menos no tengo esa duda. De

Fakat aram?zda ÅŸu ayr?m var ki bu adamlar bir ÅŸey bilmedikleri halde her ÅŸeyi bildiklerini san?yorlar; bense bir ÅŸey bilmemekle beraber hiç olmazsa bilmediÄŸimden ÅŸüphe etmiyorum.

Este favor del público, de ningún modo buscado, y para un autor desconocido, me inspiró la primera confianza verdadera en mi capacidad, de que había dudado hasta entonces, a pesar del sentimiento interno.

His vision of the future, already shadowed by anxiety, had just grown several shades darker.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self. Rex Walls

Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.

Mary was so certain she was right, but the cause she was certain would save lives destroyed them, the man who swore to be loyal abandoned her, and the pregnancy she thought would bring new life killed her. I told myself not to be that certain about anything.

Dad said something about freaks of nature, and Mom called Dad a Mr. Know-It-All Smarty-Pants who refused to believe that she was special. Dad said something about Jesus H. Christ on a goddamn crutch not taking that much time to gestate. Mom got upset at Dad's blasphemy, reached her foot over to the driver's side, and stomped on the brake.

Quelle drôle d'idée. Croire en Dieu. On ne pouvait pas croire en Dieu quand on jouait à la cesta punta. Ni quand on traitait toute l'année avec la souffrance et la maladie, ou qu'à la maison le suicide était un sport national, et qu'en guise de complies, on allait se recueillir régulièrement devant un petit ex-voto formolé de Joseph Staline.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

INEZ: What's the matter? ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe.

You believe that you believe, but you don't believe.

Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.

When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.

Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.