Quotes About Doubt

You can't rid of yourself suspicion that easily; once it appears it exists independently; and then it takes over, and the person has no control over it.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to," he replied. "And you've just got too much common sense.

I would rather live with unanswered questions than unquestioned answers,

Nadie puede decir con seguridad lo que es cierto y lo que no lo es. Lo que en realidad existe y lo que no. Por

Y sin embargo al padre Tomasino le debo uno de mis momentos más espléndidos, efímero momento en que creí en la bondad del hombre, que es un perverso animal.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Fear is. Fear will not risk that even if I am wrong, I will trust that if I move today by the light that is given to me, knowing it is only finite and partial, I will know more and different things tomorrow than I know today, and I can be open to the new possibility I cannot even imagine today.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear. Faith implies risk. I will cast my life on this possibility that God is for me. I do not have to have any proof except my own commitment. I do not have to claim complete understanding -- that is idolatry.

Anyone who insists that vaccines are safe and effective is a liar. Life

Indeed, even with unlimited resources it is nigh on impossible to prove a negative. How

Weaknes my simply be a flash of doubt in the mind. One moment of doubt can be enough to be defeated

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

acquiring faith was a journey, that you took it one step at a time, consulting the travel guide when in doubt as to the right road to take.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I would say a few words in your ear. A doubtful man has little faith. Live a long time and it gets dark, and suddenly you know you don't know yourself. But I'd say them even so. Since my eyes repeat what they take in: your beauty, your name, the river's sound, the woods, the soul on its own.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats.

J'ai eu ensuite une crise de doute, à quoi étais-je bonne se je ne pouvais pas écarter les balles autour de toi...