Quotes About Doubt

Can it be that you don't trust me?

I know there is an unseen power at work of which we have little comprehension, but I don't really feel I can consult with Jesus about my basoomas.

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

Until proven innocent, I regard all "gardenias" as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.

Gli uomini, per vivere, hanno bisogno di certezze, e quando queste non ci sono, c'è sempre qualcuno che se le inventa per il bene comune.

Solo gli imbecilli non hanno dubbi" "Ne sei proprio sicuro?" "Non ho alcun dubbio!

Truth may resolve doubt, but it has never been an analgesic.

and at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.

Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they're liars and spies, Max was thinking, "Hamlet cares only about the truth, or only he cares about the truth, and it's so hard to find, too hard for anyone to find. Where is it?

the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore

the fact that a real apocalypse would be such a vindication, if you'd spent all this dough getting ready for it,

I boiled every equation down to these simple terms: was I lovable or was I ugly?

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Wherever this idea, that the religious predicates are only anthropomorphisms, has taken possession of man, there has doubt, has unbelief, obtained mastery of faith.

D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without feeling disturbed in my soul, without incurring guilt; that is no matter of theory, but a matter of conscience[.]

Only that which is apart from my own being is capable of being doubted by me. How then can I doubt of God, who is my being? To doubt of God is to doubt of myself.

A] faith which does not believe what it fancies it believes[.]

God as an object of thought … is always a remote being; the relation … is an abstract one, … So long as we have not met a being face to face, we are always in doubt whether he is really such as we imagine him; … Christ … is the … certainty that God is what the soul desires and needs him to be. … [O]nly in Christ is the last wish of religion realised, … [W]hat god is in essence, … Christ is in actual appearance.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.