Quotes About Doubt

They took us all to Arcata to the church there. Then they made us all separate. They said we were going to have new Christian American families. They said…they said you were all dead. I believed them at first, and I didn't know what to do. But then I saw how they would lie whenever they felt like it. They would say things about us and about Acorn that were nothing but lies. Then I didn't know what to believe.

A coward worships the limits of impossibilities, obeys the rule of uncertainty, respects the forces of doubt, and magnifies the fear of failure.

When he woke his conviction of failure was somehow less inevitable.

It feels like we're holding on to something because we want to believe it,

Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.

I have nowhere to return to. It's like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that's alien to me and doesn't belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future is doubtful, everything yet to come is barely sketched and uncertain, like a mirage that can be destroyed by the slightest twitch of the air.

It's not about whether God exists or not. It's not like that. To believe, or not to believe, that is the question.

O?wiecenie zaczyna si? wtedy, gdy cz?owiek traci wiar? w dobro i porz?dek ?wiata. O?wiecenie jest wyrazem nieufno?ci.

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.

The Pringles had been married less than a week. Though she would have claimed to know about him everything there was to be known, she was now beginning to wonder if she really knew anything.

Il successo del nostro percorso dipende dalla nostra famiglia, dalla nostra compagna o dal nostro compagno, dagli amici che ci incoraggiano e ci circondano quando non abbiamo un soldo e ci ritroviamo col morale a terra. Sono loro a darci il coraggio di continuare la strada quando siamo divorati dal dubbio. Sul nostro impervio cammino, dipenderanno sempre dagli altri, da coloro che ci accolgono cm da coloro che ci raccolgono...

But when we break through that delusion, the illusion caused by selfish desires and doubt, and come into contact with the Absolute for a fraction of a second, we realize our original True Self. This experience is called satori or kensho.12 In short, this is awakening to one's True Self. It may be said that the aim of Zen is to have that kind of experience.

Look, Son of Anarchy, I appreciate the nice guy offer, but how do I even know you're legit?

Pero ¿es suficiente creer en el amor si uno no cree en la vida?

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.