Quotes About Doubt

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

Think Pickelman's our guy?' 'Maybe. Or maybe he knows who is. Or maybe he's guilty of something else.' 'Glad you could narrow it down,' Bailey replied. 'Always here for ya.

Besides, it's possible he's not guilty." I laughed so hard I had to put down my fries. I

I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

That's insane," said a goateed kid in front of Ethan. "You're locking down the whole city to catch a couple of terrorists? That doesn't make any sense.

Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses, memorized the teachings of Christ. When I passed, I expected to find him there." She stared out the window. "But in the centuries I walked beyond the world, I never saw him.

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

Seventy-five thousand?

If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

Just as we did with used cars, take a moment to brainstorm every single reason (fear, worry, question, concern) as to why someone would not buy from your company. What would hold them back? What would keep them from clicking "buy," swiping their credit card, or writing that big check?

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

God gave me this enormous talent, but He forgot to give me the courage to use it." ... "I don't think God forgot," Justin said. "I think He simply gave you a challenge that you haven't yet conquered.

I ain't much of a church man, Mark. Guess you might say I'm an agnostic. I don't know." "There's a good bit of agnostic in all of us, Calamity. None of us knows how much - only enough to trust to reach out a hand in the dark.

Joy asks "What if God?" and declares "But if not!

When we trade the effort of doubt and debate for the ease of blind faith, we become gullible and exposed, passive and irresponsible observers of our own lives. Worse still, we leave ourselves wide open to those who profit by influencing our behavior, our thinking, and our choices. At that moment, our agency in our own lives is in jeopardy.

Life offers us this great gift of self-organization, how we can be held in the basin of shared meaning and, within that, exercise individual freedom. It is such a shame to waste it on fear and doubt. Or to seek to contain and control it.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

The struggle is not lost. I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation and hope of changing the world for the better. That may sound naive. It may even sound sentimental. Never mind: I believe it. What are we to live for, except life itself? And, with all our doubts, with all our flaws, with all our problems, I believe that we will carry on, with God's help.

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.