Quotes About Doubt

Particularly out here tonight, in this country so ominous and terrible that to live in it is to live with antimatter, it is difficult to believe that "the good" is a knowable quantity.

Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane.

In just such self-doubts do small towns lose their character.

I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters.

What's the matter, Maria said, standing in the doorway in the dark. It isn't any better. How do you know. He said nothing, I mean we didn't even try. You don't want it. I do too. No, he said. You don't.

I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty or twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.

pobra canícula, també la seva glòria és incerta...

If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.

He had never lied to me, as far as I knew. But did I know anything?

She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.

The fact is, until we stop doubting God's goodness, we can't experience God's love.

And even if cats were color-blind, a fact that she sometimes doubted, he was content with Hannah's appearance as long as she kept his food bowl full.

Call me cynical if you like. But it all sounds a bit too convenient. The Authorized Version of events leaves out a number of details, which Creationists seem content to ignore. I personally have my doubts – not least about the giant cow – although even now you have to beware of how you express these sentiments.

Mas, ou muito me engano, ou acabo de escrever um capítulo inútil.

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you're afraid for the next moment, because it couldn't possibly be quite as good? That's what it felt like.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?