391 quotes found
“Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?”
“Only the dull don’t doubt!”
“Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.”
“While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.”
“[D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without fee...”
“I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had o...”
“This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential — and “preventive” — refutation of the ideologies of doubt: if a man is able to doubt, it is because there is certainty; lik...”
“I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to ...”
“If it makes God so freaking mad, why does it feel so good?”
“INDECISION NOW!' isn’t a battle cry that’s going to rouse anybody’s blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the sanest one.”
“There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it’s so important. I’ve wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.”
“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now avoided talking or thinking about it. Thinking about it led him into doubts and prevented him fr...”
“Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.”
“I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but hate covers that causes evil deeds.”
“In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds that blow From the desolate shores of doubt, When the anchors that faith had cast Are dragging in the gale, I am quietly ho...”
“Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?”
“Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”
“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”
“Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.”
“Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?”
