Quotes About Doubt

When has the majority ever been right? Sure they're convinced—because they don't think things through. Humanity has survived a lot of dooms.

Unofficially the cops are saying it's a suicide.

I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.

Our baby brother, Roman, was born pale as dust. His soft brown curls and eyelashes stop people on the street. Whose angel child is this? they want to know. When I say, My brother, the people wear doubt thick as a cape until we smile and the cape falls.

Jacqueline Woodson

We speak of it like it is always possible, but we never truly expect it.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It is necessary, in the solution of material problems, to work from a material basis, and then the things which are conjured up by fear and-and failure to understand may be dissipated.

Cómo justificar esa palabra tan imprudentemente comprometida y, hablando con propiedad – de esto, jamás dudó espíritu serio alguno-, insostenible?

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

No hay lugar para el místico que soy dentro del ateo que represento. Y no es problema de Dios -hace tiempo abandoné a Dios-; es conflicto de identidad, de realidad.

Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

I'll be all right," Drift whispered. She leaned forward and pulled Rook into a quick, tight hug before letting go. "So will you. But you're going to have to trust." "Trust what?" Rook asked, misery welling up inside her. Drift was asking the impossible. "I trust you. I trust Fox. Isn't that enough?" "No," Drift said. "You have to trust yourself and try to give this world a chance.

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamp-light. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

How the hell should I know? I'm just a grunt.

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.

God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.

He did not know what "she's worth the saving" meant, and it was one of the things he always took care not to ask, because although it sounded so gentle he was also sure that somewhere inside it there was something terrible to be afraid of exactly because it sounded so gently, and he would become very much afraid instead of only a little afraid if he asked and learned what it meant.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.