Quotes About Doubt

Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard's thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.

I thought it was of a heart attack, but then I realized no one ever said as much.

It was human nature to obsess on negatives, to worry the smallest of sparks into infernos.

The Turn of the Screw.

Easy hope was usually false hope.

When you are 70% sure, act / because the other 30% is reserved for hope / which is doubt turned upside-down.

No one believing you is a symptom of telling the truth.

Why not? For your information I'm hoping it doesn't last more than a month or two myself.? His words stung as sharply as a slap across the face. Maybe by that time you'll be miserable enough to be willing to marry me-

Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.

Monica was deeply religious and had yet to distinguish the differences between faith and religion.

Pastor…" I stood outside, unsure this was the right place. "This is it? Hope Center?" I called him pastor but I thought of him as Drew. That was the way he'd introduced himself to me and it was the name that stuck in my head

She doesn't understand that some things need to be believed in

Unfortunately he'd fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.

My truth she'd said to him. What the hell is truth anyway Two separate questions yes. But not wholly unrelated. For truth no matter the modifier is always intrinsically modified.

We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

I'm sorry, Anna, but I…Anna, I just can't picture a baby at the end of all this. I'm sorry. I just cannot." His voice had risen, but now it was a whisper. "Especially not another man's baby…especially not that.

edge to his words. "But then, are

Oh, they'll never believe a woman could solve such puzzles. They'll just assume I'm humoring you by editing it myself and allowing you to put your name to it. She raised her eyebrows. But you wouldn't be. He humphed. They'll never hear me admit it. I will, she said, a smile curving her lips. He shrugged. They'll believe me, not you.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Scepticismul este primul pas spre adev?r.

Ce qu'on n'a jamais mis en question n'a point été prouvé.

You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

I'd thought something was required of me, but I hadn't wanted to find out what it was.