Quotes About Doubt

Although we often use the word "prove" in everyday life, strictly speaking, NOTHING CAN BE PROVED. This is simply because NO amount of evidence is sufficient – there's always the possibility of new, conflicting, evidence.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

Pyrrho "You shouldn't rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted. The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Don't commit, and you won't be disappointed.

Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.

However foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals.

No ma cosa devo fare, cretino, cosa devo fare? Giudica tu: perché dovrei comperare delle cose che non mi sono assolutamente necessarie?

The solution is in my head but I don't know how to face it.

I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.

Do not tempt fate by saying never. Never again this, never again that—for you can never be sure of never and that's the only thing you can be sure of.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

When suffering is great, we are vulnerable to doubt. She

He worried that he was destined to be a hobbyist, a dreamer incapable of finishing anything. The fact that the college seemed to encourage this kind of "experimentation" made him doubt its motives as an institution of higher learning.

Whether you believe you're suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or that 9/11 was an inside job, the World Wide Web exists to tell you you're right. You are always right.

In times of turmoil some people turn to magic, others to math.

As with everything else about God, where you come down on the issue revolves around faith.

Only your doubt and disbelief can interrupt the flow of His blessings. Your attitude, your confessions, and your thoughts all play a vital part in opening and closing the floodgates of His blessing on your life.

It didn't feel good, but on the other hand, it felt just right.

She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no ordinary man but the Prince of Light who was asking her to be his bride. And, she thought gloomily, what sacrifice might she have disregarded had his gaze been only for her?

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.

If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain." —C. S. LEWIS

As we look at the evidence in the ensuing chapters, we'll see that conclusions such as "God exists" and "the Bible is true" are certain beyond reasonable doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.