Quotes About Doubt

The advice that knowledge-intensive firms produce is usually presented as an authoritative final answer, but look behind the scenes and you discover that knowledge workers themselves are often very uncertain.

Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt.

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even if you write it yourself.

A mind unconvinced is a mind closed.

I think things will always be okay between us, Clark. That's what I'm beginning to realize. Until they're not. Know what I mean? And even then they'll probably still be okay.

Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared...

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know...

No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.

Suddenly it made me realize why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So if they believed in themselves--the logic must go-- why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

You're overthinking this, Nora,' said Ravi. 'I have no other type of thinking available.

So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

she wondered if her parents had ever been in love or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person.

It was depressing that he found it so much easier to question his sanity than my reality.

That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.

I was better. I was better. But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realized I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realized I was still very ill indeed.

A Camus quote came to her, right in the middle of it. I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

Sa nu crezi ca stii. Sa stii ca tu crezi.

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing.

The problem is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning you start to need medical help.

Quizá no estaba seguro de lo que me interesaba realmente, pero, en todo caso, estaba completamente seguro de lo que no me interesaba.»