Quotes About Doubt

In my experience, lights at the end of the tunnel tend to flicker out.

He could still be her knight. But that was it. She would not love someone who had no faith in her.

At times I fake my enthusiasm. At others, I fear I am incapable of communicating the depth of it.

Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

Most of my writing usually feels to me like a bad idea, which makes it hard for me to know which ideas feel bad because they have merit, and which ones feel bad because they don't

Oh,' she burst out. 'I hate this—I hate it.' 'What?' 'Just—this. I feel as though I'm waiting for something and I'm getting scared it might never come.

Peter had been feeling lately that perhaps he and Jenny had come to the end of their story

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

viz., that man should not rashly engage in speculation with false conceptions, and when he is in doubt about anything, or unable to find a proof for the object of his inquiry, he must not at once abandon, reject and deny it; he must modestly keep back,

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Nigdy nie by?am do ko?ca pewna, czy naprawd? istniej?. Mog?am przecie? by? cieniem, my?l?, obrazem, który b?yskawicznie przemkn?? pod powiekami innego cz?owieka. Jak?eby inaczej? Wystarczy?o, ?ebym siedzia?a w milczeniu przez minut? czy dwie i ca?y ?wiat móg? o mnie zapomnie?.

Thank God in an atheist.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don't need it. And so hard to find when you do.

Oh, they're fine,' said Jaxon. 'They

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small. Scared of being with Sephy, scared of being away from her.

Suddenly all I had were questions.

Nicht an ein dunkles Schicksal, sondern an den Gott, der mein Fels ist und bleibt, der ewige Grund, auf dem mein Leben ruht. Ich gerate in Zweifel, Gott bleibt fest wie ein Fels; ich schwanke, Gott steht unerschütterlich; ich werde untreu, Gott bleibt treu.

What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.

Those who suppose they have found truth are called Dogmatists; those who think it incomprehensible are the Academics; those who still seek are the Skeptics

Detrás de la cruz anda el demonio!».

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.