Quotes About Doubt

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Yes, sir," she said, clearly not believing him. He reminded himself that a man's word didn't count for much in this modern day.

Too early to tell," Gary said. "It doesn't look good, but saying 'it's over' before it actually is will make certain the outcome.

bit my tongue. I liked being safe. Being in Adam's arms was safe. Talking to Coyote was anything but—and where was I? I supposed he had a point.

I bit my tongue. I liked being safe. Being in Adam's arms was safe. Talking to Coyote was anything but—and where was I? I supposed he had a point.

The Marrok knows," he whispered. "He always does. Everyone else believed I was the same, just like always. My father knew something was wrong, that I wasn't right. I was going to leave—but then you came.

Not for the first time, he wished for a more facile tongue. His brother could sometimes change the Marrok's mind—but he never had. This time, Charles knew his father was wrong.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. — Robert Browning

It must he him.

Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities.

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

No you haven't, or you would never have been persuaded by anything your father and I and Grams Brennan ever said.

really be suspicious.

Certainty is the enemy of knowledge.

Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.

Somewhere in the last century, Western man suffered a catastrophic loss of faith—in himself, in his civilization, and in the faith that gave it birth.

And he is not so sure now if his mother was right when she praised the man who made a field his bride.

First principles thinking is the practice of getting behind this tendency to follow, and to question everything you think is set in stone and realizing that they are probably assumptions.

comme si l'hiver de cette année-là séparait les gens les uns des autres, brouillait et effaçait leurs itinéraires, au point de jeter un doute sur leur existence. Et il n'y a aucun recours. Ceux-là même qui sont chargés de vous chercher et de vous retrouver établissent des fiches pour mieux vous faire disparaître ensuite – définitivement.

Why am I so diffident and apprehensive when it comes to something that means a lot to me?