Quotes About Doubt

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

It is so.When YOU think so

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.

My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.

Padre,' Tomás replied, 'my only confession is that I do not believe in confession.

Don't you ever just get tired of religion? Isn't it all just exhausting?" Padre Adriel considered him for a moment. He crossed his arms, then put a finger to his lips. "My friend," he said, "no one is more tired of religion than a priest.

Is she laughing at me?'' Cruz said. Both of his men replied, 'Yes.

Si uno de los pilotos pasaba por nuestro lado con cara seria, pensaba. «Se acabó, Estamos perdidos. Se lo leo en la cara.» Si, por el contrario, pasaba sonriendo amablemente, me decía: «La cosa debe de estar muy mal. Quiere tranquilizarnos.

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Thank God I'm an atheist!

Me parece que la duda y la incertidumbre son mucho más importantes que el tener razón.

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

It can be scary facing the unknown.

Esto es lo que me pasó a mí. Pensé que tenía normas. Yo creía en mis absolutos. Lo hice para la mayoría de las situaciones. Entonces no lo hice. Conforme pasó el tiempo, mi mundo se volvió gris y mis absolutos se oscurecieron. El bien y el mal se disolvieron en lo que sabía que tenía que hacer.

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

I'd never put my child through what God is doing to me." But God is a wiser parent than we could ever be. He places us in situations that provoke us, not to cause us to doubt but to strengthen us against our doubts.

Rather than take God at his word, they just looked at the difficulties. Rather than doubt their own viewpoint, they doubted God's.