Quotes About Doubt

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

A publicidade moderna procura promover não tanto a auto-indulgência, mas a autodúvida. Ela procura criar necessidades, não satisfazê-las, gerar novas ansiedades, em vez de atenuar antigas.

No matter how psyched you might have been about the race, consequently, you'd have to think twice about putting your life in the hands of a mysterious loner with a fake name whose closest friends lived in caves and ate mice and still considered him the iffy one.

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

Restfully reassured by his new friends, Joseph now nominated God in a new light, 'Man is God hesitant and God is Man hesitantly trying to help.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.

Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you're angry? When someone is angry, you don't doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.

Always be sure to never speak in absolutes.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

By doubting we come at truth.

Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford." "Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women—changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Ask them. But you're not a soldier, I'm not sure what you are, but you're not that.

Why me?" Han said. "Why not Dancer? He's not likely to go mad on you." Just then he was rather taken with the notion of going mad, of breaking things. It seemed like a good out.

Quién dicen los hombres que soy yo?

everyone is scared sometimes to do something. They don't think they can do it. They don't want to fail. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. That's when the courage really kicks in.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.