Quotes About Doubt

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

Toma agua bendita, que dijo alguien, y acabarás creyendo.

A man who succeeded in never contradicting himself was to be strongly suspected of never saying anything at all.

Ni el sentimiento logra hacer del consuelo verdad, ni la razón logra hacer de la verdad consuelo; pero esta segunda, la razón, procediendo sobre la verdad misma, sobre el concepto mismo de realidad, logra hundirse en un profundo escepticismo.

Chiar ?i un ateu are nevoie de Dumnezeu pentru a-L nega.

No creo en la libertad humana, y el que no cree en la libertad no es libre.

Y pensar es dudar y nada más que dudar. Se cree, se sabe, se imagina sin dudar; ni la fe, ni el conocimiento, ni la imaginación suponen duda y hasta la duda las destruye, pero no se piensa sin dudar. Y es la duda lo que de la fe y del conocimiento, que son algo estático, quieto, muerto, hace pensamiento, que es dinámico, inquieto, vivo.

Ä°nsan, ne ebedi lanetlenmeyi kavrayabilir ne de mutlak adaleti.

Sufro yo a tu costa / Dios no existente, pues si Tú existieras / existiría yo también de veras».

Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe inGod but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair, even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

For several years the researchers did not let anyone else in on their work, not because they were afraid it would be stolen, but because they were afraid that their colleagues would laugh at their seemingly crazy ideas.

Someone who is in harmony no matter what he does, no matter what is happening to him, knows that his psychic energy is not being wasted on doubt, regret, guilt, and fear, but is always usefully employed.

In normal life, we keep interrupting what we do with doubts and questions. "Why am I doing this? Should I perhaps be doing something else?" Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions, and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—I would do all you wish so as not to disappoint you, and I would give you as much pleasure as I could.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—

On the other hand, Jesus rebuked those who could not receive because of their lack of faith in Him.

I asked myself in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra whether the so-called victory was worth the cost. Now I wonder if we won at all.

In 1997 I began working as an assistant professor at Caltech, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.