Quotes About Doubt

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted.

mi a helyes, mi az épelméj?, és ki vagyok én, hogy azt állíthassam, valaha is eleget tudtam ahhoz, hogy a helyeset lépjem?

These questions are futile to answer. Behind the answer there is another answer, and an answer behind that answer, and on and on.

But he was in his fifties and there I always question how hard can they get. With a younger guy you know it's an easier thing. With an older one you don't know.

You do only the right thing, the right thing and the right thing and the right thing, going back all the way. You try to be a thoughtful person, a reasonable person, an accomodating person, and then this happens. Where is the sense of life?

Peirce's foundational, scientific metaphysics accordingly begins with phenomenology, the way things are presented to us in experience. He is particularly concerned with the difference between belief and doubt.

when real doubt ensues it disrupts our usual behavioural patterns.

Consensus is not always good; disagreement not always bad. If you do happen to agree, don't take that agreement—in itself—as proof that you are right. Never stop doubting.

It was the absence of doubt—and scientific rigor—that made medicine unscientific and caused it to stagnate for so long.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy. Nor does it offer insurance against feelings of doubt and betrayal. If anything, being a Christian complicates the issue. If you believe in a world of pure chance, what difference does it make whether a bus from Yuba City or one from Salina crashes? But if you believe in a world ruled by a powerful God who loves you tenderly, then it makes an awful difference.

And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will experience times of doubt. Everyone dangles on a pendulum that swings from belief to unbelief, back to belief, and ends - where?

Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.