Quotes About Doubt

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?

Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever

Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security.

great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

What's that?" said the cat-- "Faith." "To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish.

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times -not many, I know, or we should have no judges- when the same frightful question must be answered. Not faced, you see, but answered. Every now and again he must have to say to himself, in effect, "Everyone agrees that this colour is black, and my reason tells me it is so, but on my soul, do I know?

When one's own courage is fixed in his heart, and when his resolution is devoid of doubt, then when the time comes he will of necessity be able to choose the right move. —from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think?

And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too, where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

Behavioral psychologists class intuitive thinkers as creative, alert, confident, informal, spontaneous and independent. Such people are not afraid of their experiences and are open to new challenges. They can live with doubt and uncertainty. This is also a comprehensive profile of extreme risk-takers, in both business and adventure.

Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?

La noche, la duda y el miedo son poderosos hechiceros que han poblado el mundo de la ficción más que la mitad de los novelistas que han existido.

Han angret at han hadde latt seg overtale av Annika til ikke å undersøke hvor nøkkelen hørte til. Jonas hadde også straks villet finne ut hvor i huset dette rommet var, men Annika hadde vært urokkelig. Dette hadde de ikke noe med. Og kanskje hadde hun rett – de visste jo ikke hva de gav seg ut på …

Will you still walk with me?' 'Would you walk with a bad angel?

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

Az ember oly lassan, nehezen szánja rá magát, hogy kétségbe vonja a jóhiszem?ségét annak, akit szeret.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.

Can you really change anything, Joel?

And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt,— dumbly calling, deafly listening—that in misfortune, even death, encourages others and in its defeat, stirs   the soul to be strong?

I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified — not enough to turn back