Quotes About Doubt

L'altro tizio era ricoperto di sangue?". "Quasi certamente sì. Tu cosa ne pensi?". Morse annuì. "Magari accidentale?". "Accidentalmente intenzionale. Morse, segnati queste parole".

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

Truly times must be out of joint, when only asses have any power of action left, and those who have a little more intelligence use it to doubt everything, and to persuade themselves that it is not worth while to attempt anything.

He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In

It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no faith in life.

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

What is not yet known those blinded by faith can never learn.

What is not yet known those blinded by bad faith can never learn.

Only people who believe deeply and almost fanatically in a dream can struggle so hard with inner doubt and conflict, and without losing, in the presence of frequent disagreement on particulars, a deep sense of purpose and mutual respect.

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection.

The profoundest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

Ik word verteerd door levenstwijfel omdat ik niet zou weten waarover je anders moet twijfelen dan over het leven en ik word verteerd door doodsverachting omdat ik niet weet wat je anders zou moeten verachten dan de dood.

He who hesitates is lost. There is no real truth in that statement, of course. Any kind of a generalisation is more or less half-baked, including this one. Truth of necessity requires the exposition of both of two opposing points of view.

Ka disa pseudoepoka paqeje, gjate te cilave edhe veprimet me te mira na duken te dyshimta dhe na ngjallin nje mosbesim te fshehte, ku edhe vete meshira na duket si shtazeri. Nga ana tjeter, ka periudha gjate te cilave imoraliteti i paskrupullt, gabimet, padrejtesite, vesi dhe krimi formojne sfondin e nje tabele sublime, ngazellyese, dhe sherbejne vetem per t'i dhene asaj nje vule vertetesie. Sa me te erreta jane njollat, aq me te ndritshme duken vendet e ndricuara.

When we do not trust him wholeheartedly, we defraud God of his honor.[107] While Luther sees self-righteousness as a cause of doubt, Calvin sees it as a defrauding of God. When men trust their own zeal, wisdom, and toil, they usurp God's exclusive right to glory for the well being of his people.

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Sir, my inferior understanding prevents my grasping the unquestionable soundness of the mission.

Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Como siempre, confunde duda con profundidad, vacilación con análisis.

Priest came with soggy offerings of comfort. God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.