Quotes About Doubt

Quizá su batalla para establecerse en Old House había terminado, o quizá se equivocaba al pensar que había encontrado su lugar o que podría encontrarlo alguna vez.

The professor urged upon Fred that to base one's calculations on unobservables - such as God, such as the soul, such as the atom, such as the elementary particle - was nothing more than a comforting weakness. 'I don't deny that all human beings need comfort. But scientists should not indulge themselves on quite this scale.

The Freifrau, meanwhile, struggled with the demon of timidity.

When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.

Gina has always regarded relationships as shifty business: count on nothing, nothing is forever.

Churches have always seemed to me almost irrefutable evidence. They make me wonder if – just possibly – I might be wrong.

God, she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?

I'm not sure that I believe in God.' 'Oh I do,' says Claudia. 'Who else could bugger things up so effectively?

She had never really believed in God. There didn't seem any point in it, and he just seemed so, well, unlikely. But now, a world that definitely had no God at all felt kind of... empty. It wasn't really God she wanted; it was the possibility of God.

Num universo de sim ou não, branco ou negro, eu represento o talvez.

to Rochelle. Twyla was worried.

I was born in a time when most young people had lost their belief in God for much the same reason that their elders had kept theirs - without knowing why.

I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything.

The camera observed me, but there was nothing in my bag except a pashmina, purse, and Lorazepam. I carried emptiness. Doors opened. Another camera recorded my progress. Doubtless there were thousands of my days repeated thus, interred digitally in limbo. I ascended two steps with nothing to look forward to

He would never believe, in his wildest dreams ,that she no longer loved him. She had said it once, but he would dismiss these sorts of things as temperament or wine as if a bottle contained an infusion of foreign thoughts with which she had innocently poisoned herself.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

don't confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute truth; he was no sceptic.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?

Doesn't certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don't you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere?

Many people disbelieve in angels because they disbelieve in spirit. They believe only matter exists.

If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.

According to God's book, there is "a time to weep and a time to laugh" (Ecclesiastes 3:4). The surest sign that our culture is in deep doo-doo is that we are increasingly sure that this is a time to weep and increasingly doubtful that it is a time to laugh.