Quotes About Doubt

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

Faith lives in honest doubt.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.