Quotes About Doubt

Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him—but the parts he did understand!)

The first key, put in a sentence, has been this: that our "evils" are never the happenings in themselves, but the effect we allow them to have on us. No matter whether objectively an experience is apparently good or evil, subjectively, to the one who fears and doubts, all is evil; to the one who trusts, all is good.

Anyone measuring his mind against an external reality has to fall back on an axiom of faith.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Así, aceptar la falibilidad del conocimiento, confrontarse con la duda, convivir con el error no significa abrazar el irracionalismo y la arbitrariedad. Significa, por el contrario, en nombre del pluralismo, ejercitar el derecho a la crítica y sentir la necesidad de dialogar también con quien lucha por valores diferentes de los nuestros.

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

?nanarak dinlememizi güçle?tiriyorlar. ?nsan her sözü ku?kuyla kar??l?yor art?k. Gerçekle dü? birbirine kar???yor; yalan?n nerede bitti?ini anlayam?yoruz. Tutunacak bir dal?m?z kalm?yor. Tutunam?yoruz.

Turgut, s?k?nt?l? oldu?u zamanlar sorulara cevap vermez, bu kartlardan birini uzat?rd?: Daha gelmedi Bir de kantine bak Bugün yeni f?kra yok Ben ne bileyim ulan (en çok kullan?lan kart)

Hüsamettin Albay?m! Hamlet ya?asayd? ?imdi tümgeneral olmu?tu, de?il mi?

Nereden ba?layaca??m? bilmiyorum: tereddüt-ler içindeyim. Kimse de yard?m etmiyor. Asistan ba??ma di-kildi. Benden iki sat?r fazla bilmenin gururu içinde. OysaGauss'un yan?nda benim gibi o da bir hiç. Fark?nda de?il.

What-ifs are for fools

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

AT LEAST THREE YEARS ago, my fathers God stopped being my God. His church stopped being my church. And yet, today, because I'm a coward, I let myself be initiated into that church. I let my father baptize me in all three names of that God who isn't mine any more. My God has another name.

I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind.

Do you believe? Belief will not save you.

Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.

I still don't believe you," she said. "Things don't have to be as bad as you say they are.

She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion more than they need anything else—even people like Zahra and Harry.

they knew the cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing. They never helped when people called for help.

After all, they knew Dad didn't kill Keith. And they knew the cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing. They never helped when people called for help. They came later, and more often than not, made a bad situation worse.

She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when things got to be too much for her, she decided to trade pain for eternal pain in the hereafter. How could she do that? Did she really believe in anything at all? Was it all hypocrisy?

Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?