Quotes About Doubt

He shook his head. "I don't know. Someplace crookeder than here." "You know a place crookeder than Dallas?" "Sure.

to somebody. It's hard to believe he'd get a break

comment. "Are you sure you've got the

Lipsky said: "I'll tell you something, Layton: ninety-five percent it's nothing. Probably somebody shot a buck out of season, and you were smelling the gut dump. Those can be pretty hard to see in the dark, once they go gray. But, five percent, we gotta go look.

He'd never gotten back to religion, but he had gotten back some faith.

Sorensen asked, "And you believe all of them?" "I don't really believe any of them," Lucas said. "I can't afford to—but I think all but one are telling the truth. I just don't know who that one is.

That is the definition of faith, hermano, says Figueroa. Something that we believe in even though it doesn't work. Eres un cinicio. If it worked, it would be science.

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,' Duvall said. Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

It's hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves.

For all we know, this"—he scrolled up on the phone screen to find a label—"this Wikipedia information database here is compiled by complete idiots.

You have doubted me. Doubt me no longer. You have come to destroy me. I am not destroyed. You have come to burn me. I am the consuming fire. You will feel what it is to burn.

I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack, he said. He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually

It's not whether she tells everyone," Huma said. "It's whether they believe her." "It's the truth." "Oh, my daughter," Huma said, and smiled. "Don't tell me you don't know how little that actually means.

Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.

Well, isn't that just like religion for you, Archie," he said. "One day it's a nice way to spend your weekends and the next you're in the middle of a righteous theological clusterfuck.

You're a doubter of the perfectibility of the human soul." "I think to perfect a soul you have to have one to begin with.

unsure of her first estimate of the

Are you there, Felix? Are you there?

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical