Quotes About Doubt

Je ne me fîerai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire. Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

Gabe, did you pray?' 'Sort of.' 'Me too. Do you believe?' 'No. Do you?' 'No.' 'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.' 'What in?' 'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.' 'Yes.

Hope is a perilous thing, Quinn.

Nothing is absolute any longer, Mr. Panofsky. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.…" "Still, that is no answer." "What if there are no answers? Or if the answers offered are not suitable – what then? Perhaps there are only more questions.

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway leading to my cottage, creeping along behind a battered, rust eaten pick-up truck with a sticker on its rear bumper that read JESUS SAVES, I used to think don't count on it, buster. Now I am no longer sure.

And people pray—millions of them—and claim they are answered. Are they? Was ever supplication sent into that sky by troubled humanity answered, or even heard? Who knows? They pray for rain and sunshine, and both come in time. They pray for health and success and both are but natural in the marching of events. This is not evidence. But they say that they know, by spiritual uplifting, that they are heard, and comforted, and answered at the moment.

The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt, and one who understands the power of words

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn't going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'Simple – it's a loss of nerve.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

A universe of doubt could never erase, The faith his heart has embraced. No

So when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star. He said: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I love not the setting ones.

By the tenth he had found religion. He just wasn't sure which one. Whichever god could rescue him from this room he would definitely make a deal with.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

All the worst and worst in a person is all this mistrust in the fog of fear, which gives rise to hallucinations of skepticism.

Adam and Eve may have been the first atheists, since they rebelled against the one commandment of God.

Asking for advice on important matter, simply means that you don't want to do it in the first place.

Atheism too has become a religion, just as their brothers and sisters who are theists by hearts and minds.

Doubt is a rotten seed in the mind that must be cast aside in order to reach the promised land of success.

Doubt is the mother of fear. The remedy is to be an upright individual whenever the time comes to act.

Doubt not only kills an idea, but destroys the whole foundation of thought within you.

Hesitation is a disease that cannot be praised.