Quotes About Doubt

Next time I'd think twice about thinking twice.

As Bertrand Russell, the famous British mathematical philosopher and Nobel laureate, famously lamented in an essay condemning the rise of Nazi Germany, "the fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Show me the bastard who come up with this notion that who's running the goddamn show is some grumpy, embittered, sexually frustrated old fart with a long white beard hiding like a gutless coward behind some puffed-up cloud and I'll slice his goddamn balls off.

She thought she must be ill, though she had no idea what was wrong with her. All she knew was that the world had become a frightening place.

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

What I believe does not matter. I want to know, not merely believe. You may very well be innocent, Tiuri, son of Tiuri, but treachery and deceit are often concealed behind an innocent face. -Sir Bendu

Según cómo se mire qué? —preguntó Jared. No estaba seguro de si aquella criatura le resultaba divertida o temible.

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

There are no angels in America.

I've always wondered . . . what if it really was Him, and He decided I wasn't worth it?

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

But belief resides within the shadow of doubt. It only functions effectively in direct proportion to the suppression of the doubt that it seeks to override.

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Nej, bevis hade han inga. Men han hade sin övertygelse. Mot en övertygelse står sig de flesta bevis slätt.

And I fear my fear is greater than my faith.

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

I have every respect for your deductions, but you are wrong, completely and absolutely, and without any doubt. – The Muskrat

But most of all I'm talking about myself and my fears, even if I know that's not done. I know that everything will turn out badly. I think about that all the time. Even while I'm washing my carpet. Do you understand that? Do you feel the same way?" (p.61)

Haven't you ever been spooked by something everyone else thinks is a nonissue?