Quotes About Doubt

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.

How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

As a prosecutor, you've got the burden of proof. As a defense lawyer, all you have to do is introduce a tiny doubt.

Doubt is like dye. Once it spread into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Doubt is like dye. Once it spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no?

O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable.

It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy.

How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right? My

There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

Eis a minha opinião: não me parece que as religiões se baseiem em mentiras, mas também não me parece que se baseiem em verdades. Acho que surgem devido ao que as pessoas precisam na altura.

today to find whether or not

And you know I don't believe in God." She moves, blocking my path. "That doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you," she says. My scar tingles. My left eye starts

And you know I don't believe in God." She moves, blocking my path. "That doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you," she says.

But it feels like we are sitting on a tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. How am I supposed to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?

Religion often gets in the way of God.' – BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right?

It is no parlor trick: There is a skull and, in the dark, it is glowing. Somehow it is now floating above us all. Listen: The skull is speaking. It is saying your name. It knows about you and your favorite flower and all about your tenth birthday. But it does not matter. You are not convinced. For some reason, you are still full of doubt. You stare into the dark, looking for wires. Grasping for strings, you hold your hands out.

Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself. If you wanna think you're a new man, hell, that's fine. But don't think you're looking any different in anyone else's mind.

For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in her life.