Quotes About Doubt

It was all too possible that the hardly plausible would lead to the totally credible.

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.

the more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.

Both sides think they are about to lose. They are both correct." —Old military proverb

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing…. I do not understand it…. Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is E?___, which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'huy? How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

To philosophize is to doubt.

el origen primero de cualquier filosofía es la conciencia de una brecha, de una incertidumbre en nuestro conocimiento del mundo. La filosofía de Schopenhauer es en primer lugar un comentario acerca de las condiciones del conocimiento; una epistemología.

Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l'absurde, ça n'entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories.

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him

God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being; And so will those who deny him.

It's hard to guess why that range is not called upon.

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.

I was very brave in theory

For your information, I do love you. Although at times like this I have to wonder why.

I didn't blame Curtis for coming to what was nominally a Protestant church and expecting to hear about the Bible. I'd also had to adjust to the AUUCC's staunch secularism. Having been drawn there to grieve my mother, I would have loved some divine reassurance, but during my very first visit Sparlo said, "There are no answers, only the eternal questions," and I remember thinking, Damn, one more time, nobody's offering any certainty.

I never knew there was a whole denomination as full of questions as I was.")

But I have nothing for her. Not a single idea. I'm not sure I have another book in me. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't." "You said that after the last book." Tom took a big bite, chewed until he could talk again. "Maybe you should come back to church. Lots of ideas there.

Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one's eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.