Quotes About Doubt

Not faith in the beyond, but only doubt can make you, sorry soul, a bit less wretched.

A ja nie wiem i nie wiem i trzymam si? tego jak zbawiennej por?czy.

Since when does brotherhood draw crowds? Has compassion ever finished first? Does doubt ever really rouse the rabble? Only hatred has just what it takes.

The most important word in our planet's lexicon is why. We suspect this is true of other galaxies too.

And how can we talk of order overall when the very placement of the stars leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?

Fryderyk podaÅ' ramiÄ™ pani Marii i, zdjÄ…wszy kapelusz, prowadziÅ' jÄ… do wrót koÅ›cioÅ'a, czemu przyglÄ…dali siÄ™ ludzie — lecz mo?e prowadziÅ' jÄ… po to tylko aby czegoÅ› innego nie zrobi??

If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn't I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what?

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

If doubt is near neighbor to the heart, that may turn sour on the soul. There is both scorning and adorning when a man's undaunted mind turns pied like the magpie's hue. Yet he may still enjoy bliss, for both have a share in him, Heaven and Hell. Inconstancy's companion holds entirely to the black colour and will, indeed, take on darkness's hue, while he who is constant in his thoughts will hold to the white.

Will ich Vertrauen finden, da, wo es zu verschwinden weiß wie Feuer in den Brunnenquellen und der Tau an der Sonne?

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

I already was supporting them generously by law, but if Mia was right about Satchel being the son of Frank Sinatra, then I was really being bilked.

I disagreed. I disagreed with the unquestioning confidence of the truly ignorant

I'm not cynical, or am I?" she said. "I think I still have most of my illusions.

What if I've been wrong all these years? he thought. What if the infinite universe does not have a personal grudge against me?

Cuántas veces se supone que deberías confiar? ¿En qué personas? ¿Cuántas, de cada cien, traen un puñal guardado? Cada vez que confías en alguien estás tirando dados. Puedes saber cuáles son tus probabilidades con los dados, pero no con la gente. Tiras no sabes cuántos dados, con sepa La Chingada cuántas caras.

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?