Quotes About Doubt

Hold on, I won't have to read anything, will I? I'm not allowed to look at words, reading's sinful.

Doubting ended. Faith restored. What to do, how it must be done, and why; clear and unambiguous as the whisper of an archangel. Rebirth from the womb of a synthetic sleep-pod. Courtney Hall grinned.

Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

When we stop believing in God, we don't suddenly believe in "nothing" … we believe anything.

question they couldn't answer as yet. What mattered to them

Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. 'God gave the world to the wicked,' he says at one point, and 'Why should I bother?' at another." "It sounds interesting. But he goes on bothering?" "Yes, that's the incredible thing.

Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

Sin and evil weren't black – he'd argued the point with a priest – but were greyly anonymous.

trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

I don't think your insecurity ever disappears. Sometimes I think the more successful you become the less secure you feel. This is kind of frightening, really.

I can't front—when I flew to New York to start shooting, it felt like I was committing career suicide.

La mente dell'uomo è contorta e in genere lo spinge a credere sempre alla peggiore delle ipotesi

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

None should say: 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.